Word: modestly
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...said were the couple's unusual financial arrangements. One said that Mrs. Jackson will receive $1.24 million for bearing her husband a child and will rake in $2.4 million for Jackson to receive custody if the couple ever divorce, while a London paper put the payout at a relatively modest $528,000 for Jackson Junior's birth and said that the couple had used artificial insemination -- two charges that Jackson heatedly denied. The Jacksons left the hospital, notable also as the birthplace of Madonna's daughter, Lourdes, at about 8 a.m. Thursday morning, their destination unknown...
...million. You're about to launch a snazzy TV ad campaign built around a radical change in pricing policy: from stiff, pay-by-the-hour bills to unlimited all-you-can-eat access to the Internet for $19.95 a month. Yet you have added only a modest number of modems to the 200,000 you already need to service your teeming masses. On Dec. 1, you flick the switch...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton sent Congress a $1.69 trillion 1998 budget package Thursday containing much that even Republicans will find to their liking. The White House maintains that it is setting a course that will produce not only a balanced budget, but a modest surplus by the year 2002. Taking its cue from years of GOP initiatives, the budget promises $98.4 billion in middle-class tax cuts, mostly in the form of tax credits. Republicans and professional number-crunchers, though, reacted cautiously to Clinton's package, pointing out that it rests on rosy assumptions. What's more, most...
...poetry is not much read today. Perhaps almost no one's is. Dickey was a celebrity once, in the 1960s, when poets (e.g., Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg) could still command a modest fame. In 1966 Dickey won the National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice. Readers made a connection between Vietnam and his poem The Firebombing, which recorded an ex-pilot's agony as, 20 years after World War II, he meditated on the holocaust he had dropped upon Japan: "...when those on earth/ Die there is not even sound; one is cool and enthralled in the cockpit/ Turned blue...
...miscellaneous home furnishings; and whatever money he may have in bank accounts. The plaintiffs can attach up to 25% of his nonretirement income too, though he earns virtually nothing now, since most of his traditional sources have dried up. Even if the Goldmans and Browns succeed in gathering these modest amounts, it may seem cold comfort from a man they are convinced killed their children...