Now, I just want to point out -- and this brings me to the second problem -- when we made a very modest proposal as part of our package, our health care reform package, to eliminate the subsidies going to insurance companies for Medicare Advantage, we were attacked across the board, by many on your aisle, for slashing Medicare.

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In fact, the potential for educational mobile apps is in itself a mind-boggling aspect of my modest little proposal.

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So what we put in place was a modest first proposal, including freezing non-security discretionary spending.

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The NFL will present a proposal including the 18-game season and a more modest rollback of the percentage share allocated to players from the previous collective bargaining agreement.

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As Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush unveiled his wide-ranging Medicare overhaul plan in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Senate Finance Committee Chairman William Roth, R-Delaware, placed the finishing touches on a modest prescription drug benefit proposal he intends to debut later this week.

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Perhaps the government has cooled over his modest proposal to provide a way of overturning such things as over-cautious health and safety rulings.

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This modest proposal will preserve that small-store character by allowing stores a maximum of 40 feet on the street.

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It might then consider adopting another quite modest proposal, recently advanced by Ira Millstein, a leading lawyer and corporate-governance reformer, and a rule long observed in more shareholder-friendly places such as Britain: if, by withholding support, shareholders cast more votes against a candidate than in favour, he should not be elected to the board.

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