It's an old,crowded neighborhood of modest stucco homes and tiny shops that stretches for about 30 blocks along Eighth Street.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

But the point-one percent jump in the unemployment rate from May was more modest than had been anticipated.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

The pact is a modest but important step forward, according to Kingston Reif, at the Washington-based Center For Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

But he said there needs to be a way to provide health insurance to those of modest means.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

Professor Neirotti was able to find a youth hostel so the students pay a modest $40 a night compared to other lodging options.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

The vast site is adorned with lavish headstones and statutes, as well as more modest memorials.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The first thing you notice when you walk inside John Bevis' modest two-story is the smell.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

And the U.S. and the 16 nation Eurozone can expect modest but continued expansion even as job growth continues to lag in the new year.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

But at a press conference in Paris, the researchers says it produced only modest results.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

"Comprehensive reform, not modest repairs at the margin, but new rules of the game.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The U.N.report says the world's economy is beginning to show signs of modest recovery.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

"I was born to a family of modest means.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

But even by modest accounts, Yemen's economy is growing.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

It's just kind of overwhelming." The modest Holcomb, a stocky man who sports a beard, said he is not the one who deserves all the credit in his black USA-1 sled dubbed "Night Train."

VOA: standard.2010.02.28