Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help either. The non-nations find themselves small and technologically blighted in a world that is fast integrating its trade and increasing its industrial and scientific prowess. Most of them simply cannot get up the ante to enter the race, let alone run the course on their meager human and natural resources. There is always the prospect of neo-imperialism, in which the stronger new nations would take over the weaker, but the votes and voices of other small nations in the U.N. are a deterrent to such country grabbing...
...some instances, sharp price rises stem from special local situations. In India, inflation is the ugly result of the food shortage; most people spend 75% of their meager incomes trying to get enough to eat. Viet Nam's prices have shot up 58% in a year because of the war and the influx of free-spending G.I.s. Peru's government is spending prodigiously on a national development program, with the result that prices went up 18% last year, are expected to rise 25% this year. Brazil's government, battling one of the world's worst inflationary...
When fully explored and analyzed, De Lumley's discovery may compel a drastic reassessment of the social organization and civilization of pre-Neanderthal man in Europe. Until now, working with the meager data available, scientists have been convinced that, unlike the men who inhabited the Riviera site, the creatures of the Second Interglacial Period lived in the open or sought shelter in caves. They were clearly far more civilized than that...
...that event, a revenue increase of $6 billion would be a meager defense against inflation. And if the budget's implicit assumption that the Vietnam war can be kept in hand is not borne out, the $6 billion increase in revenues will be no defense...
Under Director Stuart Burge, the supporting cast is pallid. Frank Finlay's Iago is a meager adversary in all respects. Maggie Smith plays a resolute and poignant Desdemona, though her open, clear-eyed virtue ought to vindicate itself as easily as Iago's obvious machinations condemn him. As Cassio, Derek Jacobi seems a snub-nosed, undergraduate type whom no lion among men could seriously consider a rival...