In absence of mandates, significant tax-payer subsidies are required to spur even modest clean energy deployment.
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Even modest downward adjustments to growth forecasts can have a big impact on the public finances.
But Brazil is so fundamentally unequal that, for the poor, even modest advances are milestones.
Even modest economic ties would underscore the benefit of an opening to the West.
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Even modest economic growth in the next several years should boost earnings by at least 20% annually.
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With the economy still struggling to find its footing, even modest fiscal austerity seems myopic at best.
Rational debate about economics is harder when even modest free-marketeers, such as Britain's Tony Blair and Mr Barroso, are demonised.
If Russians with even modest earnings complied with the law, the tax collector took well over half of their incremental income.
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John Sicher, editor of Beverage Digest, says that even modest brands can double their growth by exploiting Coke's powerful distribution network.
Needless to say, even modest efficiency gains in the built environment typically translate into massive energy savings and emissions reductions in the aggregate.
Even modest stockholders tend to be more loyal consumers, spending about 50% more than non-shareholders, and referring twice as many people to the product.
Seniors dealing with rapidly rising personal medical and nursing home expenses are often dismayed to discover that even modest asset levels may make them ineligible for Medicaid.
We do not have to choose between markets that are unfettered by even modest protections against crisis, or markets that are stymied by onerous rules that suppress enterprise and innovation.
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That they are shoring up a firm too small to pose a systemic risk betrays a continuing lack of confidence in the financial system's ability to absorb even modest shocks.
Many members of Gen-Y are burdened with tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in school loans for the education we were told was an absolute prerequisite to even modest success.
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In fact, it is understood in high school that recruited athletes of even modest scholastic achievement regularly do better getting into select schools than their peers with much higher academic credentials.
Under the presidency of George Bush, says Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, an American lobbying group, prospects for even modest reform are bleaker than they were under his father's presidency.
Even modest amounts of additional income can allow individuals to delay the drawdown of their retirement assets or the date when they claim Social Security benefits, allowing those assets to grow and requiring them to cover fewer years.
The "eliteness" of a college is principally defined by the SAT scores of those admitted. (Georgetown's recent average: about 1350.) The Dale-Krueger paper reports on studies indicating that even modest differences in SAT are associated with measurably higher lifetime incomes.
Yes, those factors would push up tax revenues (at least based on static revenue estimates), but the tax burden also is expected to climb because even modest economic growth slowly but surely pushes more and more people into higher tax brackets.
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And as nobody in Britain, France, Germany, or even Belgium, pays the least attention to whomsoever runs Luxembourg (whereas even modest-sized American cities have suburbs with accountable elected mayors), perhaps better comparisons might be Henderson, Nevada, Hialeah, Florida, or Laredo, Texas.
The NRA, one of the most powerful lobbies in U.S. politics, has made no secret of its anger at Democrats' efforts to enact even modest gun-control laws and said Thursday the TV ads would begin running this weekend and continue through the Democratic convention in Los Angeles next week.
My recollection is that I managed to survive the Four Questions, perhaps even garnering modest applause.
But even that modest-sounding goal is virtually impossible, at least in the short term.
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When seeking multi-billion dollar borrowings, even a modest increase in interest rates can prove problematic.
Nonetheless, even the modest goals set in the years following NAFTA's passage have been blocked.
Moreover, without a will even a modest estate can get hit by unnecessary tax.
Second, to continue his recent momentum and attain even a modest bounce, Bush and speakers like Sen.
Seniors, parents, small business owners, and just about everyone who has even a modest investment in the market.
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