Word: modestly
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...said, was unacceptable. The next step was to bring in technical experts on the Senate Finance Committee, who huddled late last week with Administration officials to design a trigger that both Democrats and Republicans can live with. But it's a measure of Clinton's perilous position that his modest concession was enough to anger liberals who have backed his plan for months. Democratic Senators Ted Kennedy, Jay Rockefeller and Tom Daschle led a press conference on Thursday to insist on universal coverage. "Why are we spending our time trying to come up with 10 different ways," asked Rockefeller...
...bonds yield 7.1%, up from 1.6% in April. Many economists nonetheless argue that the Bundesbank is overstating matters and that prices are well under control. The E.U. expects the average inflation rate among members to fall from 3.3% this year to 2.9% in 1995, with the O.E.C.D. forecasting a modest annual German inflation rate of less than 2%. With Continental interest rates still stubbornly high -- one-year bonds yield 5.8% in France and 5.08% in Germany -- many economists contend rates must drop further if the general sense of prosperity is to deepen...
...quick-buck artists at street level, high-priced attorneys who speculate in tickets for profits, corporate executives trading favors, music-industry insiders and Mafiosi who control key blocks of tickets and take a cut of the inflated price. While Pearl Jam is pointing the finger at Ticketmaster's relatively modest service fees, it is these behind-the-scenes brokers who are responsible for the hundreds of dollars added to the price of some tickets. Though these scalpers handle less than 20% of the tickets, they are often the best tickets: the first 10 rows at an Elton John concert...
...most noncitizens." To fund either approach, the sponsors propose cutting off millions of legal immigrants from school breakfast and lunch programs, foster care, emergency food and shelter and child care, as well as AFDC. Though Clinton's plan also includes cuts in programs for noncitizens, they are far more modest. "It's a matter of priorities," says McCurdy. "We believe American citizens are the priority...
Clinton began his morning jog wearing a radically modest pair of gray knee-length shorts, thus addressing the national fixation on the presidential gams. Clinton has been criticized, and ridiculed, since campaign days for wearing "unpresidential" nylon jogging shorts that some believe revealed too much of his pale, large legs...