Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from accomplishing their goals simply by cutting their funding. Without money to hire employees, investigate health and safety risks and enforce statutes, these agencies will be toothless. For example, House legislation slashes the EPA budget by one-third, to $4.9 billion dollars. In contrast, President Clinton has proposed a modest increase in the EPA budget...
However, that was the only type of offensive attack Harvard could muster. The Crimson had a modest six corners on the day but could not hit a shot on goal on any of them, knocking two balls wide and illegally stopping the ball on the other four...
...downtown, criticizes union rules and appeals to Big Business to stay in town and create jobs. Says Jordan: "I've been a public servant for 37 years. I'm not looking at a future career in politics. I just want to make the city work." Brown, characteristically, is less modest. "The city needs my skills," he says. "I want to bring back the magic...
...Abraham Lincoln wrote in a letter to Albert G. Hodges, "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Lincoln was often extremely modest, but this remark was the result of more than humility. Lincoln, particularly as the Civil War stretched into its fourth year, was painfully aware of how much was beyond his control. David Herbert Donald in his biography Lincoln carefully examines the life of Abraham Lincoln from his birth in rural Kentucky through his death...
...Marshall wants to go home to the coastal slums of Savannah to try to improve the lives of the city's foundering African Americans. He has no delusions that he can wipe out the hunger and poverty that haunted his own youth; his attempt last summer to initiate a modest on-the-job-training program for inner-city youths died in the local Chamber of Commerce. He feels scorn for blacks who flee poverty only to forget those they left behind. "[Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas talks about being from Pinpoint, a really rundown area of Savannah...