Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BALANCE THE BUDGET by 1984. Congress, in the first, 1985, version of the Gramm-Rudman Act, promised to wipe out the deficit by 1990. Bill Clinton in last year's campaign merely proposed to cut red ink in half in four years. But if his vow was more modest, it was not, apparently, any more realistic than -- well, George Bush's prediction three years ago of a balance by fiscal 1993. In fact, Bush's final budget reveals that during his Administration the deficit nearly doubled, rising to an expected $327.3 billion in fiscal 1993 -- the current year. Forecast...
...Sereno, an assistant professor of anatomy at Chicago and a leader of the expedition. "We are just a couple of steps away from the ancestor of all dinosaurs." The scientists named the find Eoraptor, or "dawn stealer," because it appeared at the dawn of the dinosaurs and, considering its modest size, probably used stealth rather than brute force to snatch small prey...
...normal times, the automakers would trim expenses, adjust to new market trends and wait for business to improve, but these are not normal times. While the U.S. is making a modest comeback in car sales, Europe and Japan show no signs of a turnaround. And none of the world's major car markets are likely to return to the headlong expansion of the 1980s. That is a particularly painful prospect for the Japanese companies, which have justified continuing investment in new plants and models on the premise of selling ever more cars...
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social SciencesEzra Vogel, a friend of the Owada family, calledthe future crown princess "an excellent students;modest, hard working, conscientious, with a goodsense of responsibility and professionalism evenas an undergraduate...
...Donna Karan collection for men and women, top-of-the-line fashion ($650 for a pair of woman's pants, $1,350 for a man's wool crepe suit). Then there is the exploding DKNY division, which showed other designers how to sell chic women's sportswear at relatively modest prices ($450 for a woman's wool blazer vs. - $1,100 for a comparable collection garment). Now DKNY has been expanded to include clothes for children and men. Karan also has licensing deals to make hosiery, a line of intimate apparel and eyeglasses. And a few months ago, she took...