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...Meager Meal. India, which had been one of the major success stories of the Green Revolution, is now seeking commodity aid from the U.S. because inadequate rains coupled with fertilizer shortages reduced recent harvests. With perhaps half of its 600 million people living at or below the subsistence level -eating no more than one meager meal daily-even a slight drop in food production can have an enormous impact. If drought returns to India this year, tens of millions of lives will be threatened...
Troy's expertise has given his paper an impact well beyond its meager circulation (all but nine of Oklahoma's 149 legislators are paid subscribers; Troy sends the holdouts complimentary copies). Some of his crusades have brought tangible results. His story on the "shame of Oklahoma" prompted Governor Hall to end a barbarous solitary-confinement system at the Oklahoma state penitentiary. His demands for tax reform finally helped to produce legislation that included the state's first income tax on dividends paid by Oklahoma-based corporations. At the bill-signing ceremony, Governor Hall handed Troy...
...been awaiting trial on Dawson Island in the Strait of Magellan. These prisoners, most of whom were close collaborators of Allende, including several former Cabinet ministers, have not been tortured. But they have been put on a strict and often ruinous military regimen. For many, the hard work and meager diet of bread and beans have proved merciless. After several months on Dawson Island, Allende's Foreign Minister, Clodomiro Almeyda, was brought to Santiago wearing tattered clothing and in precarious health. In February, former Minister of Interior and Defense José Tohá González committed suicide, according...
...Boston University hockey team, down 5-3 midway through the third period, rallied with four goals to overcome Harvard, 7-5, in the consolation match of the NCAA Championships Saturday before a meager crowd of 2871 fans in Boston Garden...
...hand, watching the Phillies drop another close one. In late August, the Phillies and I dropped out of the races in our respective leagues. While the Phillies continued their futile ballplaying, I decided to admit defeat. I handed in the "cold ones" and spent the winter reflecting on my meager earnings...