This may sound preposterous to some, but at least a modest version of the theory is supported by solid academic research.

It was not the fancy one that costs $400, but a more modest version, priced in the middle two figures.

Now, New York has come up with its own modest version, which should be a first step toward helping some of the city's poorest workers.

But the city's budget crunch caused the end of this more modest version, the developers and city officials said.

These are men who expected to live a modest, steady version of the American dream.

Now the Pentagon planners have produced a less alarmist, more modest version.

He bowed again, a more modest version, with his right hand spread across his heart.

He called the defeated issue a trial balloon and predicted a more modest version would pass.

That legislation died in committee, but he is co-sponsoring a more modest version to be introduced on Friday.

The most radical politics it can imagine is a modest version of social democracy.