Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After displaying a bulldozing running attack all year long, Dallas could generate only a meager 104 yds. on the ground; Baltimore's premier quarterback Johnny Unitas completed only three out of nine passes before retiring with injured ribs. Earl Morrall, his back-up man and another veteran, did little better with seven...
...more than he had just paid for them-with FHA approval. One house, a former tavern that had been ordered boarded up by the city, was sold for $1,800 to a speculator who unloaded it four months later for $20,000. Repairs had been meager: the old bar still stood in the living room...
...standard cost/benefit analysis the results have been rather meager. Such expenses as an estimated $100,000 per truck destroyed on the Ho Chi Minh trail show a rather inefficient use of resources. After an input of well over $3 billion, 1000 downed planes and 200 captured pilots, the communist insurgency is at least as strong as ever...
Among other depressed industries, airlines had their worst year ever because of soaring operating costs, meager traffic growth and huge outlays for jumbo jets. A sensitive indicator of the U.S. economy, airline traffic goes into a dive whenever business in general weakens. This year companies reduced business travel, presidents moved back to the tourist-class cabin, and families postponed faraway vacation trips. The nation's twelve major airlines expect to lose as much as $125 million before taxes in 1970; Trans World Airlines alone will show a deficit of up to $65 million. The industry predicts even bigger losses...
Sure, the look in Mike's eyes said, I suppose your existence, what you might choose to call your reason for living, precisely what's been keeping you from plunging the dagger into your throbbing heart, is the publication of this meager little book . . . this little 153-page book that's hardly worth the $5.95 they expect you to pay for it . . . and you've been waiting for it . . as if to pretend you didn't already read half of it in one of the summer issues of New York...