Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes in through a defective filter that tends to get clogged with sand. And they also need a lot of fuel (much more than the M-60), so the M-1 has to be followed into battle with a fuel truck Each of these miracle fighting machines costs a meager $2.7 million...
McCarthy has put on some poundage and muscle since then--bulk she desperately needed. "During freshman year I was still recovering from anorexia (an eating disorder)," she says. In high school McCarthy was obsessed with dieting and lost more than 10 pounds to register a meager 64 pounds on the scale. "My ballet teacher was in hysterics." McCarthy remembers. "she brought me all sports of things like natural peanut butter. But of course when people are pushing food on you, you just want it less...
Despite the meager results, the Reagan Administration is convinced that it has adopted the proper course. Says a senior State Department official: "We see it as a long-term proposition. There are dips and bobs and weaves, good days and bad days. But the trend of the process is generally forward and upward, in a slow, erratic way." Just how slow and erratic may be decided in January, when the Administration must again certify to Congress that progress is being made on human rights and social reform in El Salvador...
...America: "We are aiming at the customer of higher expectations." Whether that strategy will work remains to be seen. For the first nine months of this year, Rabbit sales plummeted 43.4% below 1981's figure, and Volkswagen's share of the U.S. auto market stood at a meager 1.9%, well below the 5% won by the Beetle in the 1970s. In September, former General Motors Executive James McLernon resigned as president of Volkswagen of America and was replaced by Noel Phillips, a marketing executive from South Africa. With sales running far behind projections, the company has canceled plans...
...articulate opponent of Nazism, Kolbe courageously cared for hundreds of Jewish refugees and was a marked man when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. In Auschwitz, where priests were singled out for special brutality,Kolbe shared his meager food rations and spent much of his time comforting others. Some survivors said it was Kolbe's counsel that inspired them to go on living. For a new biography of Kolbe, A Man for Others (Harper & Row; $12.95), California Journalist Patricia Treece interviewed Sigmund Gorson, a TV personality in Wilmington, Del., and the only Jewish survivor of Auschwitz who knew Kolbe...