Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudenstine then put forward "some modest proposals for [the seniors'] consideration...
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton is learning her lesson. First there was nationalized health care. It was a disaster. Then came the more modest intellectual goals of "It Takes a Village." That book spent 19 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, including three weeks...
Nevertheless, Boston Market has fundamentally changed the restaurant industry. More than half the meals ordered in a sit-down restaurant get up and go home to be eaten. According to the National Restaurant Association, this year the entire industry is growing at a modest 3% clip, while takeout is expanding at more than twice that, at 7%. "The restaurant has become a prepared supermarket," says the NPD Group's Balzer...
...Congress, of course, that passed the law authorizing the program, or at least authorizing something. A modest three sentences of the massive Telecommunications Act of 1996 told the FCC to expand an existing industry-funded program that provides low-cost telephone service in rural areas and inner cities into one that would hook up schools and libraries. "We gave them much more of an opening than we have in the past," says John McCain, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. "They did what bureaucrats do when you give them money and power...
...billion antitobacco bill, which will be the subject of contentious debate in the Senate this week. Despite demands from leading Senate Democrats--and some Republicans--that the price of a pack of cigarettes be raised by $1.50 over five years, the Administration agreed to support McCain's more modest $1.10-a-pack hike. In return, the Arizona Senator strengthened the provisions that would penalize the industry for not meeting targets in reducing teen smoking. Also, McCain and the White House acted to pacify convenience-store owners by restricting the FDA's ability to unilaterally ban the sale of cigarettes from...