Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playing a zone defense for much of the first half and all of the second, the Huskies eliminated Harvard's meager inside game and the Crimson could set up few if any layups in the later stages of the contest...
...movements overshoot," Riesman says, but adds that "this movement has not achieved its goals and will not succeed until there are as many women, percentage wise, majoring in chemistry at MIT, as there are men." Riesman is right. Look around at the meager number of tenured women at Harvard--there are only eleven. Read the polls which tell you there are fewer college-educated women entering the job market than men without college educations. The women's movement has certainly publicized its cause, but seems to be sinking into quicksand along the road somewhere...
...whole case-by-case approach is unrealistic. I said that it was impractical at last year's corporation hearing, and I believe the same thing now. This year's progress has not even met my meager expectations. Half of the committee has studied, though not evaluated according to plan, three corporations. That's as far as we have gotten. A unified treatment is necessary for this reason and others which I listed in Appendix C of the last ACSR report...
Wolfe and his nine-member staff work on a meager $148,000-a-year budget in a cramped and rundown Washington office. On the door is a sign in Latin: POPULUS IAMDUDUM DEFUTATUS EST (The people have been getting screwed long enough). Putting in ten-hour days, Wolfe is currently involved in a study of surgeons' fees in Washington, D.C., a stepped-up antismoking campaign, and warnings on estrogen...
...machines when prices were lower, his return on original investment is substantially higher; nonetheless, in theory he could enjoy a larger income by selling out and putting the money in bank certificates of deposit paying around 9% interest. Such profits on even the most efficient farms are too meager to interest big corporations. The fears that the family farm would be taken over by "agribusiness" have proved unfounded. Corporations with more than ten stockholders account for less than 2% of U.S. farm sales. Even farms large enough to incorporate themselves generally operate as a family affair?emphatically including Pat Benedict...