Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet hope that a countryside depleted of its population will be a meager ground for the resistance. A recent United Nations' report describes the war as genocide. At least 500,000 Afghans, and 20,000 Soviet soldiers, have died in the war since the Soviet invasion...
Last weekend, Devin injured his knee in warm-ups before the Princeton game and was unable to play against either the Tigers or the Cadets. McEvoy got the call both nights and surrendered a meager five goals...
Despite the fact that behavioral change offers the best hope for slowing the spread of the epidemic, funds for education have been especially meager. In 1986, the Centers for Disease Control had $25 million available for education, although a full program would have required three times as much. The federal government refused to issue educational materials explicitly advising "safe sex" practices. Apparently, it was feared that this would be construed as an "endorsement" of homosexuality...
...hire the faculty and create the programs necessary to realize his plan, the new dean said in an interview that he will initiate a multi-million-dollar capital campaign to increase the 170-year-old school's relatively meager $30 million endowment...
...scale, some 6 million people with incomes at or below the poverty line will be freed from paying any income tax at all, doing away with a pernicious unintended consequence of the current law: for the past several years the poor have been sending a growing share of their meager pay to Washington. About 80% of taxpayers will owe less; though many of the reductions will be small, they add up to big money. Collectively, individuals ! over the next five years will keep in their wallets $121.7 billion that they would have to hand over to the Internal Revenue Service...