Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which we disagree?" U.S. patronage of the contras, said Democrat Edward Boland of Massachusetts, "has caused our allies to wonder at our sense of proportion." The Republican-controlled Senate has approved $21 million for the contras. But a standard, split-the-difference compromise may be unlikely, since keeping a meager flow to the contras would not satisfy either side...
...highest population density in Central America (601 per sq. mi.), similar to that of India, El Salvador is a land that is ideal for guerrilla warfare but pitifully inadequate for the agricultural needs of its people. Salvadoran geography creates some harsh problems: Who owns the country's meager agricultural resources? How should they be put to use? These are among the most important issues in the country's civil...
...work at Harvard make much less than their non-student co-workers. In the dining halls, on the security force, and in the libraries all over campus, students make four to six dollars an hour. And that money comes from Harvard's millions, not from the Undergraduate Council's meager coffers...
...basic skills came from Bai's father, a photographer who was employed in a state-owned studio. Bai worked at odd jobs as a laborer and a painter until 1979, when the government began to encourage people to go into business for themselves. His assets were meager: some photographic equipment and furniture from the 1950s left to him by his father. But the state made things click by offering a three-year tax exemption. "I was nervous whether I could make money or not," Bai said. "People don't like to start things on their own." Although...
Despite that drive, Iranians still face a wealth of economic anxieties. The government issues coupons for basic rations through the mosques, but those supplies are invariably meager: they include few basic protein items, no more than ten eggs per person each month, and only 3 lbs. of meat each fortnight for a family of five. Thus, people are left with no alternative but the black market, where a pound of mutton sells for $15 and a pound of premium imported tea for more than $150. Sometimes 150 people will line up just to buy oranges. For the average factory worker...