Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striking Asturias coal miners last summer, he merely whetted the appetites of workers in the rest of the country; another increase last Jan. i, raising unskilled laborers from a minimum 60? to $1 per day, did not help the millions of skilled workers above this meager floor...
Hungarian intellectuals earned their meager allowance the hard way. Communist Boss Janos Kadar, after betraying his country to the Kremlin during the uprising, for four years tried to whip the country into submission by brutal use of police terror. But Kadar eventually learned that he could not force the sullen Hungarians to cooperate. With his civil service in tatters and economy a shambles, he gradually relaxed controls, even began naming non-Communist experts to key industrial jobs. "He who is not against us is with us," said Kadar in late 1961. Such relative leniency in a Communist state at last...
...would be reached quickly. In the meantime the mines set their own wages. Although royalties are now being paid in Floyd County, no general wage agreement has been reached; the discontent continues. Many men have gone back to work in order to sustain some kind of living, even though meager. Should enough financial support develop for another prolonged strike, they would unhesitatingly walk off again...
...group of vociferous People's Party reformers argued for less of the traditional cooperation with the Socialists, but the meager victory of the People's Party -81 seats to 76 for the Socialists-was hardly a mandate for sweeping change. Still, conservative Chancellor Alfons Gorbach shared the reformers' feeling that the extra strength entitled his party to at least one more ministry. The one in mind: the Foreign Ministry, where Socialist Bruno Kreisky was the prime target of the People's Party reformers. The conservatives argued that a Socialist could not possibly put his heart into...
Actually, a recent visit to New York reveals that the natives are subsisting on rather meager fare. A group of young businessmen are putting out the New York Standard, a puerile sheet that appears to be a cross between the Ohio State Lantern and the Hadassah News Letter. The Newark News, a more than adequate paper, has stopped shipping papers to the city because it loses money on them. A few other second-rate newspapers drift in but they aren't much help...