Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHILE BROWN presses for increased funding for education, one striking aspect of President Bush's education program is the modest increase in funding...
...behavior upsets its allies not because it is necessarily wrong. Turkey's attacks on Kurdish rebels are deeply troubling to all its NATO allies, and Germany certainly has a right to object and even to withhold arms. What has changed is Germany's style. The old, far more modest West Germany would have worked quietly behind the scenes to obtain allied consensus on arms transfers or to persuade Turkey to behave less brutally. Not now, and perhaps never again. "Germany is reflecting its power," says Rollo. "It is confident enough...
...than in Detroit, where car sales had climbed 3% during the first two months of this year only to slide 6.9% in the period from March 11 to March 20. "Obviously, this is not a boom," says Thomas Webb, chief economist for the National Automobile Dealers Association. Yet the modest overall pickup has left the Big Three with dwindling backlogs of unsold cars and busier production schedules. Ford plans just 12 weeks of plant shutdowns to trim inventories in the second quarter, compared with 36 weeks for the same period a year ago. The downtime could be extended, though...
...economy has some real strengths that could bolster the recovery. Inflation is running at a modest 3% pace and shows no signs of heating up anytime soon. Consumers and companies have seized the chance to lighten their debt loads by refinancing them at lower interest rates. Companies have also charged into the bull market for stocks to raise cash and pay off IOUs. Corporate America sold a record $55 billion worth of new shares last year to help clean up its balance sheet...
Celia lives up to his modest expectations when she torments him, leaving the coat rack or the vacuum cleaner in front of the door on her way out. But her antics have a motive--her love for Martin; she uses the booby traps to retaliate against his apathy toward her. They complement each other well. That is, until Andy (Russell Crowe) comes along...