Word: modestly
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...were more nuanced. Although the 35 states with outright bans on doctor-assisted suicide may now enforce them with greater assurance, the court rulings did not preclude states from voting to allow assisted suicide, as Oregon did in 1994. The right Rehnquist denied was so broadly stated that more modest constitutional claims may someday be affirmed. And five Justices, a majority, wrote concurring opinions that further qualified his meaning. The court's fondest hope appeared to be that its judgment, as Rehnquist wrote, "permits this debate to continue, as it should in a democratic society." The court also seemed...
...courts have refused to accept. In April, Illinois Governor Jim Edgar spent leftover campaign funds on TV ads to build support for his solution--raising income taxes. But his own party killed the bill in committee. Having watched these stumbles, Voinovich is aiming at something more modest. Early this week, a task force he named to solve the problem is set to unveil its plan--probably a penny increase in the state's 5% sales tax. Proceeds would go to the neediest districts. The tax would fall heaviest on the poor, but in Ohio's hot economy, Voinovich...
Women who stayed on estrogen for more than 10 years, however, derived a more modest benefit. Reason? Their risk of dying from breast cancer shot up 43%, enough to offset the positive effects of estrogen, Grodstein says, but not enough to eliminate them entirely. Despite the rise in breast-cancer deaths, the researchers found that long-term estrogen users still had a 20% lower death rate. Over the coming years, Grodstein and her colleagues hope to find out what happens when women use estrogen for even longer periods. Does their breast-cancer risk continue to rise, or does it level...
BETHESDA, Maryland: With eight holes to play, the 1997 U.S. Open stood deadlocked among four players, all at a modest four under par. Three of them gave. Colin Montgomerie missed a five-footer at seventeen to drop to three under, then failed to birdie the par three 18th. Tom Lehman's approach shot to the 17th green bounced on the slope and rolled into the water, and Jeff Maggert simply disintegrated, three- and four-putting greens until he finished a distant fourth at one over par. The last man standing was Ernie Els, alone at four under after five straight...
...Audubon were able to visit this show mounted in his honor, he might find it a trifle modest: two rooms filled with books, watercolors, excerpts from his extensive writings, a few of the natural specimens he collected and drew, and personal effects such as his embroidered leather coat and trousers, beaded moccasins and bear-claw necklace. And all these artifacts are rather dimly lit, since the Smithsonian could not afford to install the fiber-optic lighting that would protect precious illustrations from fading. But Audubon would have found any tribute to himself insufficient; while he lived, he was as easy...