Word: modestly
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...liberal he says he is. A hawk during the Vietnam War (he condoned the invasion of Cambodia and suggested President Nixon should receive the Nobel Peace Prize), he has consistently voted against labor, for nuclear power, and for increases in military spending. He opposes even the modest national health care plan supported by Carter. As an independent, he would find it impossible to work with the major parties in Congress...
Fewer minorities are applying to the GSAS because many "have modest expectations about career plans in the arts and sciences," Edward L. Keenan, dean of the GSAS, said yesterday...
...make the same mistake over and over again: they underestimate him. When they do, it is not surprising, because he comes from outside their experience. Presidential candidates normally spend decades in politics, or at least in some form of public service, before winning the nomination. Reagan is different: from modest beginnings, mostly by the force of his personality, he rose rapidly in two highly competitive fields, radio and movies, and turned to politics only after his show business
...tale of a woman who gets stuck to a dry cleaner's revolving garment rack with Super Glue and spends her days plotting a damage suit with her attorney trotting along beside her as she goes round and round with the cleaning; or Blount's modest proposals for new mass media. One scheme would eliminate the more boring moments of life by "quick cutting" people from, say, home to office by means of roving teams armed with chloroform and stretchers. Another would provide a personalized morning newspaper, summarizing what a reader did the night before...
Last Tuesday, for instance, Beckford and Linsley finished just two seconds apart, shattering the old Franklin Park course record (which now resides in Miss Beckford's name, a modest 17:09) and leading the harriers to their fifth consecurive GBC crown...