31.   It could not even agree on a modest tax incentive for more fuel-efficient buildings.

32.   It also has modest subsidies for alternative fuels like wind and solar power and modest tax credits for energy-efficient cars and homes.

33.   It creates modest tax credits for people who buy hybrid cars, for builders of more energy-efficient homes and for manufacturers of some energy-saving appliances.

34.   It is probably too much to expect Congress to impose a modest tax hike when it appears to be rushing toward imprudent tax cuts.

35.   It leaves the exchange-rate policy alone, and offers modest tax breaks and financial incentives to get the economy moving.

36.   It proposes modest tax cuts.

37.   Modest tax cuts targeted in this way would make a fine use of any unclaimed federal revenues.

38.   Patton, a former coal mine operator, favors modest tax cuts, greater economic development and only modest changes in the education system.

39.   Propose a modest tax cut for the middle class, but promise to pay for it with sensible reductions in government.

40.   Republican moderates, who wanted more modest tax reductions, settled for a compromise that was at best a meaningless fig leaf.