Word: modeste
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...increased support for financial aid programs at the various universities will be funded partially by modest tuition hikes hovering around the 3 percent mark, as most administrators are hesitant to further burden families from across the socioeconomic spectrum who feel the recession’s pinch...
...Meanwhile, the No Child Left Behind Act has led to steady if modest improvement in education performance (especially among minorities), which is needed to prepare Americans for the 21st-century jobs that will lead us out of recession. Private health care and Medicare benefits also increased substantially under President Bush. Incidentally, they are the reason that wages, which are only part of employee compensation, were supposedly stagnant under his administration. Productivity expanded, in part because Bush avoided dangerous policies like card-check, which President Obama, in the middle of a recession, now foolishly advocates. Finally, the administration?...
...independent and gets significant government loans. GM has already cut so many blue collar workers that it operates with a skeleton staff and will not have the capacity to ramp up production with its current staff levels when the car markets eventually rebound even if the rebound is a modest...
Tucked between Eliot House and the University Lutheran Church, the modest two-story building on 21 South Street is an apt architectural metaphor for the organization it houses. The headquarters of the Harvard Advocate is more picturesque than pretentious, and save for a crest on the building’s facade, the quaint white siding and green window frames belie the literary clout that lies within.Though the humble exterior may do well to conceal the presence of the country’s oldest continuously published college literary magazine, the interior tells a different story. The Advocate’s past...
...many outside the force think the code is a step in the right direction. "Right now there is no law saying that police officers have to be modest and respectful. The new code fulfills this need," says Yevgeny Vyshenkov, deputy head of the Agency of Journalistic Investigations and a former St. Petersburg police detective. "But with it, we are not talking about law; we are talking about ethics, so it still leaves much room for improvement." (See pictures of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's patriotic youth camp...