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...Hanover, the women had just as easy a time with their opponents, amassing 72 1/2 points, while Brown took second with 55 and Dartmouth brought up the rear with a meager 31 points...
...from 18% to 11.88%. The other airlines have been watching to see if Eastern's business goes up substantially. How long Eastern can hold down its interest rate is uncertain, given its weak financial condition. The carrier says that it does not expect to make money from its meager finance charge but hopes to fill plane seats that would otherwise be empty...
...support for the last 10 years, Amnesty International is investigating the "disappearances" of 250 prisoners of conscience. All political parties and activities are banned in Chile, and the government routinely makes arrests, banishes dissidents to remote areas of the country, holds people incommunicado for weeks, and worse. Justice is meager. One man, Guillermo Rodriguez Morales, was accused in 1981 of killing a government agent and sentenced to life imprisonment after a 45 minute trial...
...potential audience of 1.2 million, only about 130,000, or 11%, opted to pay $10 to watch the show, which stars Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, George Rose and the rocker Rex Smith. Moreover, in its first weekend, the movie earned a meager theater box office of $255,000, as well as the enmity of exhibitors, who resented Universal's undermining of their customary exclusive on movie premieres. Says Mitchell Neuhauser, associate executive director of the Independent Theater Owners Association: "Exhibitors don't want to be treated like second-class citizens...
...poetry that appears contradicts the commonplace theory that poverty makes people meager in spirit as well. On the contrary these children reveal their imagination with honesty and innocence. Many of them-even the first graders-must miss days of school in order to work picking crops to help the family out financially...