Word: modestly
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...fact, even McCarty's modest private effort implicates the government in overt racial discrimination in several ways. It will be administered by a state university. The business contri bu tions presumably will be tax-de ductible. Above all, the Oseola McCarty Scholarship Fund--and in deed all private, so-called voluntary affirmative action--causes the govern ment to be racially biased in its po l icy toward private discrimination. The government would quickly step in to stop even a sweet old lady from setting up a whites-only scholarship fund. That would clearly violate about 18 laws, including...
That much modern psychopathology grows out of the dynamics of economic freedom suggests a dearth of miracle cures; Utopian alternatives to captialism have a history of not working out. Even the more modest reforms that are imaginable--reforms that somewhat blunt modernization's antisocial effects--will hardly be easy or cheap. Workplace-based day care costs money. Ample and inviting public parks cost money. And it costs money to create good public schools--which by diverting enrollment from private schools offer the large communal virtue of making a child's neighborhood peers and schoolyard friends one and the same. Yikes...
Meanwhile, the New Orleans competition still offered the sort of carping and subjective judging that break gymnasts' spirits and infuriate fans. After eighth-finishing Amy Chow, 17, received a modest 9.425 out of a possible 10 for a lukewarm compulsory floor exercise, Moceanu earned a 9.8 for a routine that ignited the crowd. Sniffed one judge: "If Chow got a 9.425, Moceanu deserved an 11." But in the interest of creating a cohesive U.S. team, even flamboyant rival coaches Steve Nunno and Bela Karolyi kept their egos somewhat in check. Nunno, who in '92 boasted, "Bela is an '80s coach...
...institutions and portfolio managers who had received huge blocks of shares still hadn't sold any of their stock. Investors were bidding up the price so fast that the ground floor had yet to be set. What the investment banks had valued a few weeks ago at a modest $14 was soaring to $30...$45 ...$55 and into the wild blue-chip yonder. Finally, as stunned brokers nationwide sat with phones glued to both ears--buyers on one, sellers on the other--the opening price was reached: $71 a share. Only then did profiteers start cashing in: Sell, sell, sell...
...than five-hundredths of 1% of its national budget on all forms of cultural subsidy--the equivalent of maybe five cups of diner coffee per citizen per year. In fiscal 1995 the NEH got $172 million, the NEA got $162.4 million, and the CPB got $285.6 million. Still, these modest sums exert large leverage on private and corporate patronage through "matching grants" (to qualify, the recipient must raise as much as $3 from the private sources for every federal dollar) and by the vitally important role played by the NEA and the NEH as Good Housekeeping seals of approval...