In a story in this week's magazine, Rebecca Mead describes Rosen's initiative as a "modest scheme" that aims to invest in New York's garment factories, with the hope of turning them into innovators in apparel production.
After serving briefly as governor-general of the plague-ridden lower Volga region (1879), Loris-Melikov was transferred to the provinces of central Russia, where he recommended to the emperor a modest scheme of administrative and economic reforms, aimed at alleviating the causes of social discontent and, thereby, combating revolutionary terrorism.
When lower output and higher social costs are taken into account, alcohol costs Europe and America hundreds of billions a year, up to 1.5% of GDP by some estimates.The industry has introduced some modest schemes to encourage responsible drinking.
The city also extends a modest health insurance scheme to the workers — a hard-won victory for K.K.P.K.P., which argued that after doing the city's dirty work, its members deserved some social protection.
The Fashion Manufacturing Initiative is a more modest scheme, but he hopes that it will yield a similar result.
In this country that surprising pioneer Margaret Thatcher, in her enterprise allowance scheme, provided a modest income to young people simply on the basis of a statement as to what they planned to do over the next few years, avoiding the management and heavy monitoring machinery that is so costly.
Even the present, much more modest scheme was only rescued by the Heritage Lottery Fund when one of the first actions of the coalition government was to scrap a promised £10m grant.
Soane justified the move by preparing scale models of other nearby buildings which also broke the building line, alongside his own modest scheme.
This comparatively modest scheme might have been wholly successful if left unchanged, but the British command transformed it: Sir Julian Byng's 3rd Army was to actually try to capture Cambrai and to push on toward Valenciennes.
Even this relatively modest scheme, however, involves jacking up the main tax rates by several points and withdrawing the personal allowance, no easy sell for Mr McDonnell or anyone else.
