Prices of secondary Treasury note issues also posted very modest advances.

Following the lead of these star writers, other authors have managed to push their once modest advances into six figures.

The authors receive modest advances, ranging from $5,000 to $10,000.

Still, a modest advance gave the Dow Jones industrial average another record close.

Ticket sales so far are lackluster, the producers say, and the show has a modest advance of $1.5 million.

Such modest advances nonetheless represent a big change in China.

Now, the prospects are for a more modest, but perhaps longer lasting advance.

Markets Stocks posted modest advances, partly because of the lowest oil prices in three years.

But even the more modest advances are usually far more than the best short-story sale will earn.

The show has a modest advance of more than $5 million, with group sales adding another $1 or $2 million.