Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruins racked up 205 yards on the ground alone, paced by Slattery's 68 yards in 15 carries. Beatrice added 151 passing yards, and the Bruins wound up with 21 first downs to Harvard's meager...
Unfortunately, that is not all the author dragged out of the originals. Our narrator is a pedant, and he felt obliged to introduce within his meager 250 pages a galaxy of references to earlier adventures, to all of Holmes traits and methods, and to some of the fascinating characters and animals that our author evidently feels were snubbed because they were mentioned only once in the original...
Miller's new staff of union officials, which has been recruited from the coal fields, can readily appreciate the worker demand for a decent standard of living and security in old age. To demonstrate miners' vital need for pension and safety benefits, his advisors emphasize the industry's meager pension benefits of $150 a month and an injury rate three times that of manufacturing industries. The fatality rate of 120 miners a year far outstrips that of any other country's coal industry, and the infamous "black lung" disease afflicts one out of three miners--including Miller himself...
...look at the facts also reveals that the growers certainly haven't been keeping anything from the workers. The return on agricultural investments in recent years has been a meager 2 to 3 per cent. In some years, many small growers have earned less than half the annual pay of their farmworkers...
...blessing in disguise." Reason: if the price of oil had remained at pre-embargo levels, demand for the fuel would have been so heavy that known reserves would have probably run dry around the end of the century. That would leave the Middle Eastern countries with resources too meager to finance continued economic development, and the oil-importing nations without sufficient alternative energy sources...