Word: modeste
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...poorest and sickest elderly receive better drug benefits under Medicaid, the state-administered federal program for the poor. Under the new Medicare plan, an elderly couple earning less than $16,362 will copay only $1 to $3 per prescription, and Kennedy has argued that even such a modest amount can be a burden. Ten states currently exempt their poorest seniors from paying for drugs at all. According to a report released by Kennedy's staff, these 6 million beneficiaries "will be worse off. Their out-of-pocket expenses will be higher, and their access to needed drugs will be reduced...
...inside, and here, at the French university where I normally teach, there will be little, or no, education taking place today - as was the case yesterday and the week before. That's because a significant number of students have been en grève - on strike - protesting against the modest but to them apparently radical reforms the French government had proposed for a system that's as profoundly in need of change as the Middle East is in need of peace. I have taught in five nations on three continents, at universities ranging from Harvard to Haifa, from the Free...
...obvious as Paul Otellini. For nearly two years, the chief operating officer of Intel has been sharing the presidency of the company with CEO Craig Barrett, who has been grooming Otellini to take over when he reaches the company's mandatory-retirement age of 65 in 2005. The modest Otellini, 53, eager to avoid any appearance of a coronation, will say only that the top job is "something I'd like to do" and that Intel has a "very orderly transition process...
Like many of the characters he writes about, Meehan had a modest upbringing that was the prelude to a life of fame and fortune. Raised in Suffern, N.Y., then a small town dotted with apple orchards, he was the oldest of four brothers and sisters. When he was 15, his father died, and his mother returned to nursing to support her family. He says with astonishment in almost a whisper that he has a jacket that cost as much as the house he grew...
...discreet transport Brand-new SUVs are prized by Moresby's carjackers. Ensure your local office sends something modest to pick...