Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States "snatched a modest victory from the jaws of triumph" in the Gulf War, the co-authors of a book criticizing the Gulf War's effectiveness said last night...
...generously. To allow this radical intrusion in a quiet life seems the emblem of English accommodation. But, Bennett insists, "allow isn't quite the word. I was just faced with her-it was like Eleanor Roosevelt moving in! I just got used to it. I know this sounds odiously modest, but I don't think it needed much goodness. It's more laziness. Just as you can do harm by being lazy, you can do some good as well...
...Larkin was asked if he'd like to go to Australia, he said, 'I wouldn't mind, if I could come back the same afternoon!'" For George III or the Lady in the Van or Alan Bennett, there's no place like home. It's where one has a modest function...
...work has its critics. Some challenge her results directly. University of Pennsylvania professor Frank Furstenburg Jr. claims that "the overall effect of divorce is modest to moderate." Others, noting Wallerstein's lack of a control group, wonder whether her subjects are any more miserable than the kids from troubled but continuing marriages she didn't track. A lengthy University of Virginia study recently found that children of divorce were better off than those of highly dysfunctional marriages, and family historian Stephanie Coontz is worried that Wallerstein's "scare tactics" may cause mismatched mates to "stick it out for the kids...
...proposal is to go after the so-called ``greedy geezers.'' All seniors, rich or poor, are provided hospital coverage with modest deductibles and--for $46.10 a month--nearly all purchase a supplemental plan that helps pay the cost of visits to the doctor. The richest in this group, argue the reformers, should be made to pay higher premiums and larger deductibiles. But it turns out there are relatively few ``greedy geezers'' to be gouged. Nearly 80% of all Medicare benefits go to households with annual incomes less than $25,000. Another Republican proposal would simply impose a cap, a fixed...