Word: modeste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Secretary of Defense's dining room is modest, with a couple of inlaid wooden cabinets along the walls, several flags with streamers from various military campaigns, and a bust of Gen. Douglas MacArthur in one corner. The table can seat only 24, which isn't very grand for the man who controls the most powerful military in the world...
...shows a night." The Annex is not the only show of its kind. In the past decade some 50 similar enterprises have started up, from California's thriving Learning Exchange and Learning Tree to Chicago's Discovery Center to the Open University in Washington. Zanker, who takes a modest $70,000 salary but holds $5.5 million worth of Annex stock, sweepingly dismisses the competition as "mom-and-pop operations." He has, however, bought out the Open University. "I am the Ziegfeld of adult education," he proclaims...
...often (although not always) divided by ethnicity, religion and language. Usually the armies involved are small, as are the engagements they fight (the standard political science classification of a civil war is an internal conflict that causes 1,000 or more deaths in battle a year, a relatively modest baseline). Such wars tend to drag on for much longer than four years. And foreign powers often get involved...
...major political party that has set out a clear and coherent way that we do it. We should have limits on donations that should apply to individuals, businesses and trade unions. I've suggested ?50,000 a year as the limit, and in response to that some modest state funding of political parties which you could offset by cutting the cost of politics, reducing the size of the House of Commons and cutting the amount that's spent during a general election. That is a sensible package and I hope others will take...
...David Cameron: Part of the package I suggested was some modest tax relief on smaller donations. And when we do reform party funding, it's very important we encourage small donations and parties to have strong grassroots and to have a strong and growing membership. But reforming party finance is one of the things we need to do to stop the cynicism about politics. People think that parties are somehow open to be bought by rich individuals or rich businesses or rich trade unions. We've got to get rid of that impression and so party finance reform is part...