Word: modestly
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Cuomo has focused on the tax cut's vagueness, calling it a "con job" and a "political fantasy." But without waiting for details, many voters have been far more critical of Cuomo's own, more modest $1.6 billion cut, seen as cynical from a man who could have proposed it long before the election (much like his last-minute scheme to lower state electricity rates by buying the huge Lilco utility). Says Lee Miringoff of Marist College, one of many pollsters who have chronicled a Pataki lead of about 44% to 40%: "Cuomo has a problem: he's running...
Then there's Nanni Moretti, who displays a more genial egotism. Though the Italian actor-writer-director is in every scene of Caro Diario (Dear Diary) -- an episodic film that is the equivalent of an artist's sketchbook -- his is a skeptical, almost modest form of auteur hubris...
...virtue of the service that I've had the opportunity to give both in the church and outside it," Mitt told the Boston Globe earlier this year, "I've spent time every week with people of very modest means...
Vallier has won modest praise from many security guards and police officers. But his close contact with the person who hired him--Vice President and General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall, who oversees the department but is generally distrusted by officers--has caused some to be cautions...
...modest tuition charged to Extension School students is not an overwhelmingly persuasive explanation for such a minimalist ethos. In any case, both at the College and at the Extension School, the cost of tuition does not reflect the true cost of an undergraduate education...