Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christmas, the White House has sprung a new policy proposal. Some are big, like giving 62- to 64-year-olds a chance to buy into Medicare, and spending nearly $22 billion more on child care. Others, like expanding college work-study grants and training more computer programmers, are relatively modest. Clinton is also talking more seriously about confronting Social Security's solvency crisis. What all these plans have in common is that they seek to give ballast to a nation sailing through choppy waters...
...Living up to the promise will be much easier than getting Windows 98 to ship on time. The infrastructure will cost much less than was previously thought, plus the plan to produce modems that connect at a screamingly high 1.5 million bits per second is actually modest by DSL standards. The makers of the technology believe it can squeeze as much as 8 million bits out of a copper phone wire ? perhaps more. "It's the great bandwith horizon," says Ramo. "You never get any closer to the edge...
...rutted dirt road leads to Vojnik, a farming village of 200 houses and 2,000 ethnic Albanians. Devoutly Muslim and speaking a complex, ancient language derived from Illyrian, the people here are the most doggedly independent of the approximately 2 million Albanians who inhabit Kosovo. Their houses, resembling modest forts, are hidden behind high walls of brick if the owners are well off or crude fences of woven sticks if they are not. Out on an isolated bluff, behind a particularly high brick wall, sits the compound of the village hoxha (religious leader), Abdyl Krasniqi...
...failed. Indeed, Seed in recent years appears to have suffered some financial reversals. Until last summer he and his third wife Gloria lived in a two-story Victorian house in Oak Park. But the bank foreclosed on their $341,000 mortgage, and they were forced to move to a modest bungalow in nearby Riverside. "I had a beautiful house," sighs Seed. "It's very difficult to make money but extremely easy to lose it. I lost a couple of million dollars...
...seem increasingly interested in photogenic authors. Would she make an alluring book-jacket photograph? Would he be viable as the subject of a magazine spread that concentrates on what he wears while chopping wood? Toward the end of 1997, news coverage of the industry was less about writers with modest sales (so-called midlist writers) than about particularly attractive writers whose books had spent months on the Best Sellers' list--beneficiaries of what the critics might call the Hunk and Babe Effect...