Word: meager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also a game the Crimson could not afford to lose, if only for reasons of pride. The Tufts squad's loss dropped its record to a meager 1-8-2, while Harvard's improved...
Andorra's most compelling problems, however, spring from too rapid modernization and runaway growth. For centuries, the principality's hardy Catalan-speaking mountaineers tended their sheep and their meager crops in peaceful isolation from the wars and social turmoil that shaped the rest of Europe. Change came swiftly when Andorra established itself in the mid-'60s as a major duty-free area offering such irresistible bargains as gasoline and Chivas Regal at a fraction of their prices in Paris or Madrid...
...capitalistic ventures can rival the return on invest ment of a movie megabit, and National Lampoon's Animal House is, in more ways than one, a gross example. Produced for a meager $2.7 million and promoted with a fur ther $4.5 million, the film so far has taken in more than $50 million. Producer Matty Simmons, chairman of the company that publishes the raucous monthly National Lam poon, expects revenues to top $80 million by year's end, not counting foreign distribution. That would place the film-among the top 15 movie earners of all time...
However, this year I will not fall into the category of disillusioned sportswriters whose meager attempts at ESP crumble when conflicting results are recorded. Yes, this year no one will scoff at my inspirations. In fact, I'll stake my last Dunster Dollar on the flawlessness of my insight...
During the daytime, what action there is tends to center on the city's private-enterprise markets, which the Hanoi regime has sensibly avoided stamping out. The markets afford most Hanoi citizens a supplement to their meager official rations?but at a huge price. Fresh fish cost $1.77 a pound, while the average worker's salary amounts to only $30 a month...