Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion debt. In April, Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi's failure to deal with the country's accumulating crises brought down his second government in two years. As if all those woes were not enough, a plague of locusts is threatening to wipe out the country's meager crops of millet and sorghum...
...overseers have to be made to recognizethat this may just be one step, but it is gettingto be ridiculous," Hodos said. "By giving in, theyare playing a role in taking apart whateverHarvard's meager commitment to democracy was. Theyare increasing voter turnout for puppets...
...swing open, and all 200 seem to surge forward at once. As six blue-uniformed militiamen armed with automatic weapons struggle to hold back the crowd, a salesclerk begins parceling out portions of a coveted commodity: frozen 1-lb. chunks of chicken gizzards, heads and feet. In minutes the meager supply is exhausted, and fistfights erupt among disappointed customers. Moments later the van drives off, and the throng disperses...
...force of tradition and tries to lighten the atmosphere. "Forget the Beardies, the Coffins and the Principal's left nostril," he says. "You have three pars on the trot now." But too many shots, moments and memories have been missed. The game is up. On the 18th hole, a meager drive, a half-skulled 6-iron, a pitifully pulled putt and a long tap-in add up to a par four that tastes like turned milk. "You're home," whispers Alex, graciously leaving off the "laddie." Home? Right. Yeah. Sure. Well. It's good to be home...
...actors Wheeler approached might have turned him down, of course, because they disliked the script or the pay, a relatively meager $1 million. But most made it clear that they were frightened by the role. "There's a general feeling that homosexuality is a dangerous subject," says Front Runner Director Marshall W. Mason, who has made his name in the theater (Burn This, Fifth of July...