Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writes, have too easily swallowed the Galbraithian notion that the U.S. has all the production it needs. Americans have become "defeatist" about their own economy and in the last decade have settled for one of the lowest rates of growth in the world, which Myrdal calculates at a meager 1 %, a figure below the estimates of most other economists. Seven percent of the American people live in what Myrdal calls "utter destitution," e.g., individuals with an annual income under $1,000, families with an annual income under...
...very stuff that life is made of. Fishing plays a vital role in the economies of dozens of nations, such as Japan, Ecuador, Peru, Canada and Norway. For many food-short nations, the "panic for protein" to feed their people leads only to the sea, which now contributes a meager 12% of the supply of animal protein consumed by the human race. Throughout the world, the fishing industry not only supports thousands of fishermen-who lead probably the roughest and most ill-paid lives of any workers-but countless satellite industries. From Madagascar to Greenland, the catch...
...about the way-out future, yet he is also an intensely practical man who has made realities out of many of his early dreams. Immensely wealthy and forever faced with decisions about spending millions, he is nonetheless a penny pincher who makes waiters and taxi drivers scowl at his meager tips, is indifferent to carrying cash (his secretary presses pocket money on him just before he goes on every trip) and always takes a single room rather than a suite when he is staying in a hotel. He is often shy and inarticulate among strangers, yet he has managed...
What is baffling about opposition to the Corps is that none of the usual bogeys can possibly scare Congressmen. It does not cost much: only a meager five million dollars for the first two years. Neither a large bureaucracy nor duplication are imminent: a small administrative board will arrange training, and projects will be chosen only if no other service is available. And there is to be no Federal encroachment on the local domain: Corpsmen will work only when requested by local groups; they will not be sent anywhere...
When he got out of law school, Wallace could not afford to set up a law practice. He collected 1,000 coat hangers, sold them and his old clothes, lived on the meager proceeds until he got a job - driving a dump truck. He was still piloting the truck at 23, when he met a clerk in a dime store named Lurleen Burns, 16. They were married in May 1943 and now have four children...