Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton was a bit more modest than his first. The crowds, estimated at a quarter-million, were about a third the size of last time. The celebrations seemed a trifle more subdued. (Why not? We're all a little older now.) Yet it was no less a day befitting what Clinton called, in his 22-minute Inaugural Address, "the world's indispensable nation"--dignified when it needed to be but otherwise at ease. Inauguration Day can be the most public of public occasions. The President squares his shoulders, raises his right hand and self-consciously...
...lives in Phoenix, Arizona, sheltered by a close-knit clan: his wife Mary Elaine, six children and 29 grandchildren. House hopping between his children's homes like a visiting relative, Keating recently left the villa belonging to one daughter and son-in-law and moved into the more modest home of another of his children in a working-class Phoenix suburb, a Gulliver at rest in a granddaughter's cramped bedroom...
...Corporation in 1994, which identified a "quiet crisis" in the lives of the youngest children. Hillary Clinton has begun to speak out on the importance of a child's earliest years, and several Governors have forcefully taken up the issue. The size of the programs in place is quite modest. But to their advocates they hold out promise not only of helping children fulfill their potential but also of saving society the costs ncurred when intellectually and socially impaired children grow up to be intellectually and socially impaired adults...
...perfectly frank, it feels great [to be able to give a gift like this to Harvard]," said John Cullinane. "It is a modest contribution by Harvard standards, but the department is very appreciative, which is great...
...Moscow has spoken vaguely of economic incentives for remaining part of Russia, and Chechnya desperately needs capital to rebuild an infrastructure destroyed by 20 months of heavy fighting. With the international community squarely behind Moscow, Maskhadov knows secession is probably a distant dream. So Monday, he kept his program modest. "People are very tired of war," Maskhadov said Monday. "If people place their trust in me, we will have a chance of a better future...