The only thing government had to do in turn was keep itself modest in size.
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However, the gold market bulls need to step up and show fresh power very soon to keep the modest near-term technical momentum they achieved late last week.
After giving his usual description of the economic outlook (inflation has remained moderate, unemployment is high, Fed will do whatever it can to keep the modest recovery on track), Bernanke faced the sharp tongue of Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee.
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But the best way for Labour to avoid legal challenges would be to keep the tax modest.
This is the kind of modest enterprise you keep within the family.
The book contains anecdote after anecdote about millionaires who live below their means and keep their wealth by maintaining modest spending patterns even when they have the financial capacity to spend more.
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By all accounts, this modest growth scenario will keep the profit engine humming for corporate America.
Last month the Fed said that as long as inflation remained modest, it could keep short-term rates near zero until the unemployment rate dips below 6.5 percent from the current 7.8 percent.
The key, says Dreher, is sticking to modest upgrades that enable the company to keep price points low.
Only a modest amount of reserve capacity is needed to keep the system from going down when one or a few power plants crash.
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In its 2001 budget, it got enough funds to keep the audit rate from falling further and to begin a modest comeback.
If they want to keep the reform momentum going, the architects should be doing some modest redesign at home.
As long as its main export markets, such as China and the United States, keep growing, its firms should be able to cope with a modest loss of competitiveness in the form of a higher yen.
Mr Hutton should be able to keep Mr Brown on-side if his demands on the exchequer are modest.
But in 1993 the economy was recovering from a relatively modest recession, and Clinton concluded that it would benefit from smaller deficits, which could keep both inflation and long-term interest rates low.
To be clear, right now the ECB is purchasing modest amounts of Italian and Spanish government debt, for example, in an attempt to keep the respective interest rates they're charged at a bit less than the penal and prohibitive 7%.
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