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Bush's proposed budget has provoked criticism for its modest commitment to education spending overall and for its lack of attention to specific programs...
Legislators have also responded to the modest spending increases that Bush has proposed in education. Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins (D-Calif.), chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, expressed disappointment with the administration's proposals. Hawkins favors a plan to double the budget for education, according to members of his staff...
...China to give Hong Kong a much needed boost of confidence when it released the new draft of the Basic Law, which will govern the territory after Britain relinquishes control and Beijing takes over in 1997. The Hong Kong members of the drafting committee wanted nothing more than | a modest increase in the number of directly elected legislators after 1997. As it was, only 18 out of 60 seats were to be filled by open ballot. Since Tiananmen Square, however, Hong Kong's top priority has been to increase that allotment as a hedge against rule by Communist whim...
Exxon's mop-up team did earn modest praise for its effectiveness in soaking up some of the oil with cotton booms. By week's end Exxon had recovered about 130,000 gal., but the damage remains to be calculated. More than 300 birds have died, and if the oil destroys the area's marine organisms, several species of migratory birds may starve to death when they arrive in the spring for breeding...
...overcame conservative resistance and rightfully elevated the fight against the disease to the top of the nation's public-health agenda. Says June Osborn, chair of the National AIDS Commission: "We should not be content or comfortable. The national response to an out-of-control epidemic has been frighteningly modest...