Word: meager
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Though life for the average person is spare and hard by any standard, the benefits as well as the hardships of China's progress have been distributed with a minimum of inequality. The average factory worker makes a meager $28 a month; the average peasant living on a commune about half that. Essentials, like food, medicine and housing, cost next to nothing and, to the envy of the rest of the world, have not increased in price in 20 years; yet "luxury" items, such as bicycles or radios, can soak up months of savings. The average urban worker...
Produce or Perish. To inspire his countrymen, Nyerere himself has spent the past month upcountry doing daily labor on ujamaa projects. There he recently received Britain's Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, who promised a welcome $6 million in emergency aid. To conserve what meager foreign exchange is left, Nyerere has banned liquor and tobacco imports, restricted the importation of automobiles and announced plans for rationing gas. "Our motto must be: 'Produce or perish,' " he says grimly. Despite opposition from the World Bank and other foreign sources of financial aid, Nyerere has not cut back on one expensive...
...those of you who read past the inauspicious headline "'Cliffe Cagers Rout Newton College," that might be hard to believe. But Radcliffe really did rout Newton by a score of 74 to a meager...
...Crimson only converted seven of 16 charity tosses for a meager 44 per cent, while the Minuteman drilled 18 of 20. "We missed about three one-and-ones toward the end which were really costly," Sanders said...
Last year at midseason the Crimson five had captured only three victories in their first 13 starts. In five of the last six straight losses, opponents outscored the cagers by the meager total of eight points. Coach Tom "Satch" Sanders decided it was time for a transfusion of new blood: he substituted Bill Carey and Steve Selinger for Arnie Needleman and Mike Griffin and Harvard won eight out of their last eleven games to snag fourth place in the Ivy League...