Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Healy proposed only a modest property tax increase of .8 percent, the smallest tax levy hike since fiscal year...
...friend of mine, who shares my weakness for making ill-fated investments, recently bought a share of Berkshire Hathaway. That's the flagship company of Warren Buffett, who recently surpassed Bill Gates as the nation's richest human. Like many of us, Buffett started with a modest bankroll, only he managed to turn his into $13 billion-plus. We've seen oil magnates, real estate moguls, shippers and robber barons at the top of the money heap, but Buffett is the first person to get there just by picking stocks...
Shannon's trail led to a modest blue house in Portland, Oregon, where Andrew Burnett publishes Life Advocate, a magazine regarded as the handbook for abortion militants. Each month it chronicles movement activities and carries a list of prisoners serving time for clinic attacks. But the magazine specializes in identifying doctors who perform abortions. A September 1993 article described how Burt and Hill went about learning the identity of Gunn's replacement in Pensacola. Ten months later the replacement and his escort were dead, and Hill was under arrest...
...fives for earth-bound colleagues, the 52-year-old physician exclaimed "It's Mother Earth" as he and two other cosmonauts emerged from their Soyuz descent capsule. Left behind: a new three-person crew on thespace station Mir, including U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard. (He aims to break the more modest American record of 84 straight days in space...
...will lead sooner or later to slashing their none too generous government checks. And they will punish any legislator who doesn't swear to keep hands off the system with the electoral equivalent of burning at the stake. This attitude certainly exists, and not only among older Americans of modest means. Leonard Schwartz, 52, a lawyer in Austin, Texas, earns a six-figure income and has built up a sizable nest egg for the retirement he hopes to start early. Even so, he's worried. "I'm going to be relying in part on those [Social Security] benefits. If they...