Word: meager
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...Left Faridkot in 2005 to follow in his older brother's footsteps as a laborer; Qasab found work in Lahore and later worked as a decorator in Rawalpindi. Disappointed with his meager earnings, he conspired with a friend to commit robberies. In 2007 he came into contact with the LeT and joined their ranks, hoping to develop military skills. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
...still has the largest number of card-carrying members. A survey by polling firm Demotecnia predicts that the PRI will carry 36% of the vote on election day, while President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party will drop to 31% and the leftist Democratic Revolution Party will get a meager...
...practicality, seems to lean toward a ‘no.’ Union leaders have begun to schedule meetings with schools and departments that have told them they are considering changes that could result in involuntary layoffs, according to Jaeger. Otherwise, concrete information has been meager...
...John •authorship by of memo that basically authorized torture proves no barrier to the decision by the Philadelphia Inquirer to spend its dwindling meager funds on columns by attacking the attackers of said torture memo
...Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said Intel's predatory pricing practices were specifically designed to muscle out AMD, whose current market share is a relatively meager 12%. "Intel has harmed millions of European consumers by deliberately acting to keep competitors out of the market for computer chips for many years," she said. "Such a serious and sustained violation of the E.U.'s antitrust rules cannot be tolerated." (See pictures of Obama's trip to Europe...