Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special committee investigating the Harvard Student Agencies released a shabby and incomplete one and a half page report. The responsibility for revealing details of the committee's study was placed entirely on two reporters, who had no more than their own knowledge of the situation and the meager committee summary on which to base questions. As a result, despite two months of study by the Committee, those holding suspicions about the practices of the HSA are still justified in maintaining them...
...union is aware that its members want job security more than raises (their pay envelopes are already fatter than those of workers in any other production industry) and would rather collect layoff benefits (which now run as high as 65% of after-tax pay) than the union's meager strike benefits...
...poor. We're not proud of it, but we don't shun the fact that we were the poorest family in South Boston." The family stove was fueled with stray lumps of coal that Knocko and Dannie picked up in the railroad yards, and John's meager earnings were supplemented by a "pauper's basket" from the welfare department. "I had to go down to the Chardon Street welfare home and chop wood so we could get the basket," says Knocko. "Those baskets didn't have any oranges or grapefruit or nuts...
...necessity to raise exports, which currently bring in a meager 4% of the U.S. gross national product, promises to spark the lustiest congressional fight of 1962; it will come over President Kennedy's bid for sweeping new powers to negotiate tariff reductions with the European nations. If the President wins his battle, U.S. businessmen will be presented with their broadest new market-and toughest new competition-since the 13 original states erased their tariffs against one another...
...already in the works, for just that afternoon one of Katanga's Dorniers had dropped three bombs near U.N. troops at the airport. Next morning all 15 of the U.N.'s jets-Indian Canberras, Swedish Saabs and Ethiopian Sabres-were off in search of Katanga's meager air force. The Indian jets found four planes on the ground at nearby Kolwezi and destroyed them all. The air strike was just in time, for some of the Kolwezi planes were loaded with bombs and ready for another counterattack against the U.N. in Elisabethville...