Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meager but enthusiastic crowd of 6339 showed up to watch some local-boys-made-good make good on the scoring sheet. Scott Fusco slammed a rebound past McEvoy early in the third period, while former Boston College skater Gary Sampson and high-school star Dave Jensen also hit the Harvard twines...
...Bruins' second half surge was aided by a pair of penalty shots and poor Crimson shooting. Overall, Harvard shot a meager 18 percent and Fasi and Munatones were unable to net a single score...
Yellow flags played a big role in keeping the Crimson attack stationary before halftime. Eight first-half penalties, totalling 60 yards, cut into the meager 145-yard, 30 minute Harvard output. In the first period Gizzi was guilty of passing from beyond the line of scrimmage, nullifying a 33-yard strike to Mark Vignali. The second quarter alone saw four illegal procedure calls on the Crimson offense...
...country, their presence can not change the sectional hatred and hostility that has fragmented Lebanon for many years. Dozens of armed factions, each with its own peculiar aims and loyalties, will continue to bicker and fight regardless of any foreign military presence. Foreign armies many times larger than a meager batallion of Marines have unsuccessfully tried to pacify Lebanon. Faced with a pointless, perepetuzl war of attrition Israel chose to withdraw. Why then is the United States becoming ever more enmeshed in this senseless conflict that can not but end in tragedy...
...interested? Openly contemptuous, in fact? Then you are hardly a contrarian. To a good contrarian, Amhoist's expected profits in 1984 will still be meager enough to make it an out-of-season bargain, like snow tires in July. The fact that few other investors are attracted to it is all to the good. Contrarians are a stubborn breed who relentlessly resist the natural human tendency to run with the pack, and Amhoist is just the kind of stock they thrive on. Or hope...