Word: modestly
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...patches become the next big addiction? So far, most researchers see little chance of wide-scale patch abuse, despite reports of patients sneaking extra patches or pressuring physicians to extend treatment beyond the recommended six to 12 weeks. But really, who cares? Nicotine alone is not a killer in modest doses. It mixes just fine with driving, and best of all, co-workers and spouses need not fret about secondary smoke. Until the battle against bad habits is finally won, nicotine patches might just be the most promising candidate for the last socially acceptable -- or at least tolerated -- vice...
...modest Green downplays the importance of his financial acumen...
...highly specialized area of law," says Harold G. Clarke, chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, who has reviewed many death sentences. "Even a good criminal lawyer may not have had much, if any, experience in capital cases." Court- appointed attorneys must also be willing to settle for modest fees that rarely cover the cost of a thorough defense. While a private attorney in Atlanta may make upwards of $75 an hour, court-appointed lawyers in Georgia are paid about $30 an hour. In Alabama they cannot be paid more than $1,000 for pretrial preparations. Even if they spend...
Finally, the 1988 reforms are based on a workfare approach -- education, training, job search -- that produced only modest improvements in employment and earnings when tried by various states during the '80s. The chances of large-scale gains are especially dim at a time when more than 7% of all U.S. workers are jobless. "If you are going to have a workfare program in a slack economy, the whole program will collapse," says William Julius Wilson, a sociologist at the University of Chicago and an expert on poverty. "People will get training for employment, but if there aren't jobs...
...guys are still alternately bitter and brave, and they ultimately learn to bond with one another. Sex remains for them, of course, a scary and tragic issue. But if THE WATERDANCE has nothing new to say about its subject, at least it speaks in an engaging voice: soft, literate, modest. Probably because Neal Jimenez, its writer (and co-director with Michael Steinberg), is writing autobiographically, he is less concerned with melodramatic invention than he is with anecdotal truthfulness. The movie chooses irony over sentiment for its basic tonality, and is the better for that uncommercial choice...