Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Depression. I had studied art and science, and I was attracted by publishing. The only job available in that profession was shipping clerk for Crown. I was glad to take it." Six years later Cirker and his young wife, Blanche, took a deep breath and plunged their meager savings-a few hundred dollars-into a publishing house. "We didn't choose Dover for romantic English connotations," says Blanche, the company's executive vice president. "We named our business after the building we lived...
...possibility. The townsfolk grew up believing in the benificence of the federal government and the sanctity of the New Deal: they moved from Boston's decaying white ethnic neighborhoods to Hull with the aid of the G.I. Bill. Once again, they consider themselves entitled to aid to preserve their meager economic standing. Homeowners, 90 per cent of whom lacked flood insurance, will be paying up to $1200 annually for the next two or three decades for the government's low interest loans...
...billion-a-year economy has not grown at all since 1975, when it rose a meager .6%. Unemployment, says the government of Brigadier General Omar Torrijos, runs at 11%, but unofficial estimates put it at twice that much. It has fallen upon the government to become the employer of last resort, and since late last year Torrijos has created 22,000 new jobs, mostly make-work. Inflation, mercifully, has dropped from 30% in 1974 to less than 10%, and a new sales tax added some $35 million to government coffers last year. But the $432 million budget...
Northeastern in tough. Last year's indoor meet was of the razor edge variety, boiling down to the final two events--the relays. Harvard needed a sweep to win; Northeastern needed just one victory to protect its meager three point lead. It could have gone either way, but it went Northeastern's. The Huskies swept both events, winning the meet...
...Ridge--look north and fear, because the poverty seems to be creeping ever closer. And for many of these people there's nowhere left to run. They're willing to make their stand, as they put it, because somebody has to. The older people especially, with fixed incomes and meager lives, lock themselves in at night to avoid becoming victims and tremble at approaching footsteps in the day--they have no place to run to. They're ready to die, if they can die in Brooklyn...