Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state Senators like Kentucky Democrat Wendell Ford are certain to oppose the bill, while G.O.P. moderates like James Jeffords and Olympia Snowe have signed up as sponsors. It's got a fair shot at passing if only because, unlike Clinton's sweeping health plan, the Hatch-Kennedy proposal takes modest steps: it would cover only half of the 10 million children who lack health insurance. Conservative opponents say a better way to insure them would be to expand tax-sheltered "medical savings accounts" to the working poor. But the bill's supporters argue that msas won't work for cash...
...their showdown with Clinton last time around that they are ready to put almost everything on the table this year. Drafted in late March and obtained by TIME last week, the memo states that the G.O.P.'s "minimum requirements" for a budget deal with the President are minimal indeed: modest spending reductions, small tax cuts and "saving" Medicare for the short term. The memo also suggests that G.O.P. leaders are still considering whether to "split off" tax cuts from the rest of the budget process...
...century. Wrote Phelps of one celestial interlude: "We stopped before a small and quiet house built of curiously inlaid woods...So exquisite was the carving and coloring, that on a larger scale the effect might have interfered with the solidity of the building, but so modest were the proportions of this charming house, that its dignity was only enhanced by its delicacy ... There were flowers--not too many; birds; and I noticed a fine dog sunning himself upon the steps." There was dog, but there was very little God. The vision, like the age itself, honored human progress: it assumed...
...Swiss Confederation made mistakes during World War II like many other countries. We openly talk about them here, and we even welcome discussion from abroad on the subject. Foreign views normally broaden the narrow Swiss mind, if their authors are of some historical competence. Sad, but this modest condition already excludes people like Senator Alfonse D'Amato, whose revelations were not news to us; the average Swiss college student studied this situation years ago. MARTIN ENDER Staretschwil, Switzerland...
...shape or form. It really changed my life. All this attention - I thought of myself as doing something that I thought was important that might be interesting to a particular marginal group. It was really astonishing to me that something like women's history, sort of a modest enterprise, would make a difference in our definition of history in general...