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Bonfili and Coffey seemed optimistic in spite of the meeting's meager turnout. "People realized we'd be talking about these resolutions Sunday and didn't want to give up another night," Coffey said...
Penn's defense, giving up just 5.8 points per game this year, held Yale to a meager 58 yards rushing. The Elis' touchdown was only the second of the year against the Quakers...
Before the collapse of communism, all Russian museums got government support, meager though it was by Western standards; but now, laments Piotrovsky, "even the Hermitage is getting much less than it was getting before." The financial crunch has revived talk of selling off items from the collection, as the Hermitage did in the 1920s; but that, the director points out, would be "a disaster -- you have only to begin, and you will finish and the museum has nothing...
...that is, except our intimate, bare suffering -- has anything to do with us. For months now, all the NATO pilots have done above us with the blood-curdling sound of their planes' engines has been to scare away the pigeons that have gathered for an odd crumb of our meager but collective lunch...
...also the highest level in six years. That's a sign of inflation down the road, which makes it all the more likely that the Fed will boost rates for a sixth time this year. On Wall Street, the markets waffled, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up a meager 3.70 points to 3846.89 while the S&P 500 dipped 0.97 to 461.74. NASDAQ stocks fell 3.41 to 760.88. But bond prices nosedived, driving the yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury up to 7.86%, from...