Word: modestly
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...Medicaid benefits to a larger and larger pool of pregnant women and children, lowering the eligibility requirements a little bit more each year. He used the same strategy to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit, which puts money in the pockets of low-income workers, and he championed such modest but helpful measures as the mandated 48-hr. maternity stay in hospitals. This is a self-effacing leadership style; Bradley calls it being "the leader that people didn't know was a leader." But that kind of leadership isn't necessarily presidential. And it isn't clear that Bradley...
...profoundly meaningful. This does not mean the book is flawless. It simply means that in the sum of things Jedediah Purdy has written a book that, in its example of a person who is unafraid to express out loud his delicate loves, richly deserves fulfillment of its modest request: "I cannot help believing that we need a way of thinking, and doing, that has in it more promise of goodness than the one we are now following. I want to speak a word for that belief, in the hope of an answer...
...cases science funding is absolutely essential to making progress on scholarly ideas," said University Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67. "Whereas in the humanities sometimes at least the work can be carried out on some level with more modest support...
...Porcellian: Not to embarrass this little modest club by bragging on their behalf, but the Porcellian has won the award ten years running of "most democratic use of an endowment that exceeds $100 million." Members of this club can look forward to secret lunchesand secret community service. Other activities involve allowing a homeless woman to beg outside their entrance because of a lack of a viable legal recourse...
Nanda Kaushik hardly looks like a loser. He's making good money as an engineer at Corio Inc., a start-up in Woodside. And his face lights up when he talks about his two daughters. Yet he lives in a modest home in the middle-class East Bay, drives a Toyota pickup and wears faded jeans and old Nike high-tops to work. "What I've learned is that the most important thing in life is to have fun and enjoy what you're doing," he says. "That's what I've always looked for, and I'm more...