Word: modestly
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France's mighty unions are ranging themselves against any changes in the labor codes, while Balladur has broached modest alterations: allowing firms the flexibility to use extra employees at busy times and fewer off-peak and letting businesses hire young workers at less than the minimum wage if they funnel the savings into training. The government is also considering legislation to encourage companies to adopt a four-day week, which it hopes would put more people back on the payroll. Citizens are being urged to set up their own personal retirement accounts, easing the burden on employers...
...created in American industries that would have an easier time selling their products in Mexico. But the numbers would be relatively small on both sides, and it is anyone's guess where the balance would be struck. Most reasonably impartial economists believe that the result would be a modest net increase in U.S. jobs...
...only games I can remember are our modest victory in 1915 (Harvard 41, Yale 0) and our stunning win in 1968 (Harvard 29, Yale 29)," Knowles said. "I have absolute confidence that the Harvard team will win, whatever the score...
Dooley goes so far as to predict that someday she'll make the U.S. national team. But Mleczko's response is typically modest--she said she's "never really considered it an actual possibility...
...thing is that an agreement that has aroused so much passion, in committee rooms if not on the public stage, is likely to have only rather modest economic effects. It will not have much impact on Canada at all; Canada already has a free-trade agreement with the U.S., and its commerce with Mexico is minimal...