Word: meager
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Galbraith left Winthrop after his marriage to Catherine M. “Kitty” Atwater in 1937, because Harvard did not allow couples to live in the Houses. He then supplemented his meager $2,750 Harvard salary by teaching introductory economics at Radcliffe, and his wife, a Radcliffe graduate student, worked at Widener Library to keep the couple financially afloat, according to the biography by Parker, who is now a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government...
...should create a special fund for him. For a start, I will gladly contribute half my pension. Cedric Vendyback Kelowna, Canada I was amazed to read that Gorbachev's government pension is only 40,000 rubles a month, about $1,400. I wish U.S. Presidents and politicians received similarly meager pensions. Not only would that be hugely popular with the American public, it also probably wouldn't financially ruin those officials. Most of them get rich in office, if they weren't already wealthy. Rex H. Wyers Pace, Florida, U.S. It is certainly sad to see the developments in Russia...
...amazed to read that Gorbachev's government pension is only 40,000 rubles a month, about $1,400. I wish U.S. Presidents and politicians received similarly meager pensions...
...toiled about 9 m aboveground on the first derrick erected in Kurdistan in decades - by a Norwegian outfit using a Chinese rig, of all things. From the top, there is a panoramic view of the hills around his tiny village of Tawke, where 30 families eke out a meager living herding sheep. It hardly looks like the location for a major economic boom. "We are poor," he says, sitting on his bunk during a break between shifts in January, when Time was invited for a rare visit to the oil operation. "We have nothing." But that could soon change - perhaps...
...many prayers before deciding to flee her West Papuan home with her husband and three-year-old twin sons, Ferra Kambu says she found divine guidance. Surrounded by plastic bags containing their meager possessions in the Melbourne hotel room where the family is staying, the 36-year-old women's rights activist, one of 42 West Papuan asylum seekers released from Australian immigration detention last month on three-year protection visas, says the realization came to her clearly: "I was shown by the Lord that Australia has been given a role as the hand of God in helping to finally...