Word: modestly
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Less than Swiftian (though not without an occasional flicker of appeal) are Shapiro's modest proposals, which include raising the minimum age for drivers' licenses to at least 30, denying foreign travel to children unless granted as a privilege from their school, putting dissidents on reservations, and destroying all concepts of adolescence. He cannot be serious; yet one pokes vainly through Shapiro's overcooked simplifications for a scrap of wit or irony. Finding none, the reader concludes that To Abolish Children is little more than a late-middle-age temper tantrum...
...Force investment is modest: only $27,000 worth of medical supplies a month. But it is effective, since the program brings treatment to some 800,000 rural patients a year. By ensuring that the supplies are parceled out free of charge and always dealing through Thai officials, the Commandos are cementing relations between the Northeasterners and their own government in Bangkok...
...Modest Retreat. "I have enjoyed everything a rich woman can have in life," Madame De Maria announced after a visit. "And all I desire now is a modest retreat where I can read and reflect. I'd like to be able to chat with a shepherd in a field at sundown and munch hard-boiled eggs." With that, she asked the town fathers to let her pay for the restoration of Bargème's ruins and take up residence in the town...
...modest and equitable temporary income tax is far better," said Lyndon Johnson last month when he signed the surtax bill, "than the cruel and haphazard tax of rising prices and spiraling interest rates." Most concerned about how the tax-and-spending package emerged are the President's economic advisers. What they originally proposed was a tax surcharge only; for them, the spending downhold that Congress insisted on came as a jolt. The combination seemed like a jet pilot applying full flaps at the same time he throttles back. What worries the Council of Economic Advisers is, first, whether...
Sadly, their encouragement is such that they refuse to ask hard questions--like what happens if public bonds for ghetto investment achieve only modest success in money markets. They have also refused to grapple with the obvious pitfalls of turning over power and authority normally residing in Washington to the state capitals. De-centralization is a good vote-getting phrase. Once operative, though, it may make a bigger mess than the one in Washington...