Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final score of the game, however, was deceptive. Harvard's offense was working much better than a meager ten points indicates, and only a plethora of offensive penalties kept the Crimson from scoring several times more...
Barriers to Bigness. Doing that will not be easy. Beyond doubt, black capitalism today is meager. Though Negroes constitute 12% of the U.S. population, they own scarcely 1% of the country's 5,000,000 private business firms. One out of every 40 white Americans is a proprietor, but only one Negro...
...From our meager knowledge of socialist states in practice (quite apart from what Marxist theory predicts) and the dismal history of the Soviet Union in particular, it is likely that another stultifying bureaucracy and an intolerant, repressive system would emerge in this country. The problem of alienation from a society that is based on the dehumanizing principle of competition between humans will not automatically disappear in a state which places the worker's interests before those of other classes. In the Soviet Union in fact other classes have sprung up and this development is inevitable as long as there...
...together." Chrysler's constantly improving slice of the U.S. auto market shows how well Townsend has put it together. The company's share of the market went up from 10.3% in 1962 to 18.4% during the first seven months of 1968. Profits soared from a meager $11 million on $2.1 billion sales in 1961 to last year's $200 million on $6.2 billion sales. That trend continued during the first half of 1968, when sales rose 29% over the same period last year and profits more than doubled. By the end of the year, Townsend expects...
...indifference to the city dwellers is understandable. Cuba's greatest need is for more food. Rationing permits only eight ounces of beef per person each month, only three pounds of rice. In Havana people wait in line for hours at restaurants and markets to supplement their meager rations. "Lines are a social institution now," explains a Vedado woman. "They are also the only way to get anything...