1.   But a modest hike is not likely to cause higher unemployment, even among low-skilled workers.

2.   Clinton has wrongly ridiculed the GOP for proposing modest hikes in subsidized premiums.

3.   Mr. Clinton has wrongly ridiculed the G.O.P. for proposing modest hikes in subsidized premiums.

4.   None of these factors and others, including the prospect of a modest hike in interest rates by the Federal Reserve, would likely undermine the market alone.

5.   The site, overlooking Waimea Bay, is accessible after a modest hike or short drive into cool and forested hills from Kamehameha Highway.

6.   Yet the markets persist in brooding about the prospect of a modest hike in interest rates by the Federal Reserve.

7.   The government agreed with the International Monetary Fund and called for a more modest hike.