Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...French readers of his day found seedy at best: drag queens, hustlers, thieves, sailors having sex with each another. But he wrote these stories in a highly ornamental prose which dazzled readers and made him a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacommetti. As the usually modest Genet put it in a moment of pride, "There was the French language and then there...
Friedmann noted that such modest rate increases are an attempt to "be competitive with other museums" as well as to "offset museum costs...
...United States Senate would have made our nation's founders turn in their graves this month. The Brady Bill, a modest gun control measure that mandates a five-day waiting period before any handgun purchase, was the topic of heated debate. After hours of Republican filibustering, it finally passed...
...victory for gun control proponents. By presenting the bill as the single greatest blow to American liberties since the Alien and Sedition Acts, the NRA makes it sound as if the bill's passage was a major advance for gun haters. On the contrary, the bill is only a modest step towards controlling weapon sales...
...walkout, scheduled to end next Sunday, signals the latest problem for an industry struggling to pull out of a three-year nose dive (total losses: $10 billion). Just as some big carriers -- American, Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines among them -- have begun to post modest earnings, the long-quiescent airline unions have started voicing their demands. Workers who feel underpaid and overworked are asking for their share of the emerging profits. Management's response: continued cost cutting. "No question about it," says Morgan Stanley airline analyst Kevin Murphy, "1994 will be the year of labor turmoil...