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Vila Franca de Xira (45 km/28 miles down the Tagus in the direction of Lisbon) is a modest town, but the center of Portuguese bullfighting.
The IRS is backing off attempts at auditing the complex returns of the better off, while putting more effort into looking for abuse of the Earned Income Tax Credit, a credit available only to the working poor, and into catching people who file no returns at all, traditionally a practice inordinately associated with modest earners.
Social Security's problems won't be manifest until the next century, but it would be both easier and kinder to start making modest reforms now.
The second name, the (special) name, modesta , means modest in the sense of free from ostentation (Cynthia was struck by the moth's drab garb).
Specifically, we sought to examine recovery after relatively mild and modest degradation - conditions that did not induce a complete loss of tissue GAG.