Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cost-cutting measure, targeting welfare makes only modest sense. Payouts to the poor are just a sliver of the federal budget. Two of the largest programs, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and food stamps, account for 2.7% of the federal budget. But when Congress shies away from tougher kinds of budget cutting, the sort that would nick the middle class and the wealthy, only the poor and the outsiders are left to take the hits...
...swam very poorly," said a modest senior co-captain Deborah Kory, who herself set a pool record in the 200-yard individual medley. "Dartmouth generally doesn't pose too much of a problem...
Dorothy Parker quipped her way into minor celebrity, wrote her way into modest immortality and drank herself into near oblivion. All talk and no action, she is not an ideal subject for a movie. But if you must film this life, you'd better do something more than flatly recount the failed promise and failed romances that made it miserable...
...make my own ill-advised investment decisions without the help of my broker, who no doubt has better ideas, I figured I was a great candidate for reimbursement. At least Smith Barney couldn't be accused of paying me off to cover up my broker's mistakes. And whatever modest sum it might choose to advance me would go a long way toward cementing my future loyalty. But spokesman Bob Connor wasn't buying any of this, and Cohen at Mellon said there was no chance that Mellon Bank would pay for my mistakes in the future if I moved...
...Forer's modest proposal drew support from a few child-welfare experts like Joyce Ladner, now acting president of Howard University, and from such conservative social theorists as Charles Murray and James Q. Wilson. "Not all families are worth preserving," Wilson wrote. "And . . . foster care has its own problems. We don't know as much as we should about how well institutional care might function under contemporary conditions." (To which Murray added, "Think of it as 24-hour day care...