In between, though, NASA is proposing a more modest undertaking, establishing a network of small automated research stations covering the planet.

He'd called me two days before and indicated he had "a modest undertaking" he wanted to discuss.

The modest undertaking has grown into El Valor's $4 million-a-year program.

Yet to rise is a modern-day version of the Tower of Babel (model, right), by historical standards a modest undertaking.

The new company was a more modest undertaking with a capital of £400,000.

But Saturn is a more modest undertaking than originally planned and will take far longer to recoup the $3.5 billion G.M. has sunk into it.

"Hotel Terminus" started as a considerably more modest undertaking - as a series of magazine articles.

But these were more modest and more recent undertakings, coming 800 and 1,500 years after the Giza pyramids.

They thought that possibly some more modest undertaking was advisable.

But more modest undertakings, like a possible successor mission in Bosnia, limited peacekeeping assignments or emergency evacuations, might not.