Cobb was the first professional athlete to parlay his earnings, modest by contemporary standards, into millions.

Another 518 manage to eke out their modest earnings to such a successful degree that they own and run private jets or helicopters.

Last year, it showed modest earnings of $580 million on revenue of $42.91 billion.

The Government initially laid down three rates of sickness benefit, covering those on very low, low and modest earnings.

Even for those with modest earnings, the government pensions are often a better deal.

The couple, described as the 'first generation Soviet intelligentsia', were spending most of their modest earnings on books, theater and art.

Her credit will go from $3,888 to zero - a big loss of income for a couple of such modest earnings.

Four of the seven regional Bell operating companies reported modest earnings yesterday.

Mr. Montgomery, a 30-year-old film school graduate, is doing rather well for a man whose company only recently started seeing even modest earnings.

According to his estimate, the biggest winners by far from revaluation would be China's airlines, with some of them perhaps doubling their modest earnings.