Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competitive position by organization - and recently blue collars have won ascendancy over poorly organized white collars in average salary. In all systems, the factor of supply and demand is at work as an influence if not an iron law - even in show biz. The great majority of performers earn meager sums, primarily because of the excessive supply of aspirants. For them, as Economics Professor Clair Vickery of the University of California's Institute of Industrial Relations in Berkeley puts it, a performing job is like "buying a ticket in a lottery." It mainly feeds the dream of that legendary...
...Cliffe runners garnered 75.5 points, while the Big Green scored 60.5 and Williams totaled a meager 12 points...
...Brewster, 57, president of Yale University, to Great Britain. A confirmed Anglophile who vacations in England, Brewster has one apparent drawback: insufficient wealth. The appointment to the Court of St. James's has traditionally gone to those who could afford to supplement the U.S. embassy's presumably meager budget (currently $49,500) for entertainment and related expenses. However, Carter aides have vowed that personal wealth will not be an ambassadorial requirement in even the poshest post...
...crowd wanted aggressive boxing more than it wanted an Irish name on the card. Even Dorian's meager victory was greeted with scattered booing. Imagine, booing an Irishman on St. Patrick...
...Yankees retreated to the suburbs, the Irish learned to organize the wards, seize power and dispense the meager benefits of city hall patronage. But in the interests of city growth and a progressive image, they yielded in the 1960s to wrecking-ball blitzes, which savaged homogeneous neighborhoods, displaced the poor and forged a distrust of city hall and all governments beyond...