Word: meagerly
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...instead of waiting for the censors to approve their scripts and their films, they go out and do it themselves. Zhang financed Beijing Bastards with money he got directing music videos. Wang made The Days (1993), the harrowing story of a marriage on the rocks, for an astonishingly meager $10,000. Desperate circumstances create principled outlaws. The censors didn't intend this, but by their intransigence they helped spawn a truly independent film culture...
...because of depleted serotonin levels, recovery programs and rehab centers become a crucial way station between addiction and sobriety. But most of the region's drug-treatment centers are run like a cross between military-style boot camps and prisons. Even so, beds are scarce as addicts seek the meager resources available. In China, the nearly 750 state-run rehab centers are filled to capacity; in Thailand the few recovery centers suffer from a chronic shortage of staff and beds. While the most powerful tools for fighting addiction in the West?12-step programs derived from Alcoholics Anonymous?are available...
...still too far in the south, but beginning to think, I hope, of spring. The trees are so old that no one around here can identify the kind of apples they bear - not especially apple-shaped, but resembling ancient gnomes, or a leprechaun's collection of shrunken heads. A meager harvest. The deer eat them, but we do not. We're hoping to bring the orchard back. We pruned one tree last year so radically that it was more stump than tree, but since then it has managed an irrepressible little renaissance, firing fresh shoots...
...absence of a common E.U. immigration policy, governments are racing to the bottom in the level of benefits they offer immigrants hoping to stay. While refugee-rights groups have criticized Britain's Labour government for issuing a meager $50 weekly to asylum seekers, two-thirds of it in vouchers, other countries' policies are even worse. Germany, for instance, has slashed monthly pocket money to $40 and requires would-be refugees to stay in detention centers for their first three months. At a time of upheaval throughout the developing world, Europe's parsimony has done nothing for its reputation. Last month...
...absence of a common E.U. immigration policy, governments are racing to the bottom in the level of benefits they offer immigrants hoping to stay. While refugee-rights groups have criticized Britain's Labour government for issuing a meager $50 weekly to asylum seekers, two-thirds of it in vouchers, other countries' policies are even worse. Germany, for instance, has slashed monthly pocket money to $40 and requires would-be refugees to stay in detention centers for their first three months. At a time of upheaval throughout the developing world, Europe's parsimony has done nothing for its reputation. Last month...