Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are more serious complaints: despite Tubman's economic gains, a large number of Liberia's 1,000,000 people still eke out all too meager an existence while the heirs of the old elite and government officials live handsomely. The 1969 austerity budget of $61 million, for instance, sets aside $37 million for government expenditure, including salaries, but only one-tenth that amount for development. Tubman's own annual salary as chief executive is $25,000. Agriculture has so far been given short shrift in economic planning. Graft and corruption abound, and Tubman's True...
...radical left in this liberal university. This attempt is immediately in danger of being presumptuous in that, first of all, I am only one radical, and rather minor in relation to a large and complex movement, which I am only beginning to understand. Secondly, on the basis of my meager knowledge, I am presuming to tell those of you who more or less support the liberal university (and we'll get to the problem of definitions in a moment) that you don't understand what a radical...
...advantages of either concept over the present welfare system are numerous. Either would leave people poor by just about any definition-no plan offers more than a meager subsistence-but the most brutal poverty would be eliminated. Most of the 17 million not covered by welfare now would be included for the first time: with a floor under them, many families would begin to break the cycle of poverty that has kept them on welfare for, in some cases, three generations...
...miraculously manages to keep its deficit below $500,000 this year, it will be in no trouble. The Faculty has built a reserve fund from past surpluses, and this "departmental balance" of $500,000 is expressly intended to ease year-to-year shortages. If the deficit exceeds the relatively meager limits of the departmental balance, however, Dean Ford will probably ask the Corporation treasurer for a loan. Presumably, if the deficits continued, the Faculty would have to decide either to trim its costs or raise its tuition...
...latest figures on foreign trade have dispelled some of the gathering gloom. The Commerce Department reported that on a seasonally adjusted basis, exports exceeded imports by $282 million in September, triple the meager August surplus. The September bulge lifted the trade surplus for the first nine months of 1968 to $834 million. If the pace continues, predicted Assistant Commerce Secretary William H. Chartener, the U.S. should achieve a $1.5 billion surplus this year...