Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good job on Ed Marinaro, but a tougher-than-usual Cornell defense did a better one on the Tiger offensive machine at Ithaca Saturday. The Big Red won, 19-8, to gain its third victory of the season without a defeat. Big Ed was held to a meager 144 yards, lower than his first two performances by 100 yards...
Both Goodman (in the April Asian Survey) and Smithies have written recently about topics closely related to the ones they are now studying. The contract took affect June 15 and the final report is due March 1. The budget is a meager $42.935, with only $2000 chalked for travel. Smithies said he has not yet begun his part of the report...
...will probably not rise above the 1970 level and could come in slightly below it. Any dip in prices for livestock, which accounts for about 60% of farm earnings, has a widespread effect. Thus the payments farmers receive for the rich autumn bounty will be partially offset by relatively meager prices for hogs, poultry and eggs in the first half of the year. To nudge farmers into growing more corn as a hedge against blight, the Department of Agriculture discontinued some support payments for unused acreage. All together, the move will snip Government payments to farmers this year...
...figures must be in the metric system). Even more vexing to U.S. businessmen are the straitjacket rules on foreign investment. For example, outsiders are still forbidden to own more than 50% of practically any Japanese firm. These barriers have held U.S. business investment in Japan to a rather meager $365 million...
...superjets, or "metal angels," as Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands calls them, are being introduced at a hard time for most airlines. Having profited from an annual traffic growth averaging over 16% during the last half of the '60s, U.S. airlines had a meager increase of 3.2% in the recession year of 1970. For this year, the outlook is even bleaker-only 3% growth and a disastrous industry-wide loss of $180 million or so. By adding a total of 8,950 new seats to thousands of already half-empty passenger cabins in this year, superjets have simply compounded...