Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Missing Link. Sanchez was the particular pride of the Loyalists. The year after the Paris Exposition, the hard-pressed Madrid government allotted some of their meager funds to send him to Moscow to teach drawing to evacuated Spanish children. Although Sanchez was not a Communist, he remained there until his death in 1962, an event that passed unmentioned in the controlled Spanish press. But Franco's Spain has mellowed since then, and this summer the exile was welcomed home posthumously with a large exhibition of his sculpture, drawings and stage designs at Madrid's Museum of Contemporary...
...preliminary research on projects that will take years to become rich money makers-if they ever do. Boeing, for example, was selected this month to begin work on the Airborne Warning and Control System. Though the project could be worth $2 billion by 1976, the initial payment was a meager $16.5 million...
Curious Drive. According to O'Leary, the Apollo moon harvest has been badly handled scientifically and has produced scandalously meager results. Yet as a scientist, O'Leary still champions a space program. "Space," he asserts, "is as cheap as six weeks' fighting in Viet Nam, cheaper than deploying a useless anti-ballistic missile system, and [it consumes] less than 5% of the present annual defense budget...
...Bentsen was lured back into politics by Yarborough's old foe, ex-Governor John Connally, in a well-organized drive to scuttle Yarborough. The conservative faction put together an effective campaign estimated to cost close to $2,000,000, relying heavily on television advertising, while Yarborough spent a meager $200,000. Connally's mentor, Lyndon Johnson, remained officially neutral, but Bentsen had the help of several old Johnson aides, including Press Secretary George Christian...
...race described as "unusually close" by Intramural Athletic Director Floyd Wilson. Kirkland House holds a meager three point edge over Winthrop House in the Straus Cup competition...