Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheats. He tried Tomahawk diplomacy; Saddam just ducks and ignores 'em. Even as Clinton last week charted a sustained bombing campaign that one offiCIAl likened to a "slow, soaking rain," no one suggested that it would rid the world of Saddam. The goal of the strikes was more modest and less satisfying: to "degrade" Iraq's ability to make and deploy weapons of mass destruction, temporarily at best. Maybe to club Saddam into some cooperation with the inspections regime. Certainly to punish him. But not to solve the Saddam problem for good...
...reason is that felony disenfranchisement laws take away the vote for a wide variety of offenses. For an offender to lose the vote, the report states, "the crime need not have any connection to electoral processes, nor need it be classified as notably serious. Shoplifting or possession of a modest amount of marijuana could suffice...
While Flynn invoked his political legacy and Bachrach touted an impressive plan for activist government, Capuano says he tried to be modest...
...paid off brilliantly for the company. GE's shareholder value spiraled 515%, from $39 billion in 1986 to $240 billion in 1997. During the same period, profits shot up 228%, from $2.5 billion to $8.2 billion, while the company's income tax payments to the U.S. Treasury rose a modest 27%, from $1.1 billion to $1.4 billion. In the process, GE pared the U.S. portion of its income tax bill from 84% to 52%. At the same time, GE's income tax payments to foreign governments shot up 550%, from $200 million to $1.3 billion...
That memorable 1966 display of the so-called Leonid meteors was visible across much of the Western U.S. and marked the century's greatest meteor storm to date. Now, after 32 years of relatively modest return visits, the Leonids are poised to stage another celestial spectacular on the nights of Nov. 17 and Nov. 18. How spectacular? Scientists forecast heavy meteor showers and, just possibly, a full-blown storm as dramatic as the one 32 years...