Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican side, where a meager 80 GOP conservatives voted, Sen. Robert Dole (R.-Kan.) won 40 votes at the two polling places, George Bush received 32 and Pat Robertson won only a single vote...
...less generous spirit, America's patchy playground directors were so dismayed by their meager share of the plunder (two gold, one silver and three bronze, in contrast to three gold medals for Finnish Ski Jumper Matti Nykanen alone) that they brought in New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner to help them harrumph. Promising importantly to look into it, he made noises about cost-effectiveness, dropped a few cold war phrases, filled a lot of newspaper columns and went home. Meanwhile, in front of the Village, one of the enemies of capitalism, G.D.R. Figure Skater Alexander Koenig, 21, politely priced...
...Todd Cameron pinned Keith Stanford from Navy at 5:08. John Freeman also triumphed, dominating Columbia's Ron Hatcher with a 7-1 decision. Both preserved their hopes to win the consolation tournament and thus enter the winner's bracket in this double-elimination tournament. Harvard totaled a meager three points overall, leaving it irretrievably behind first-place Lehigh and second-place Syracuse...
...rest of the country decide too. Unlike 1980, when the seven-man Republican field was pretty much winnowed to Reagan and Bush by Iowa and New Hampshire, or 1984, when an eight-man Democratic field was virtually reduced to Hart and Mondale, this time the winnowing has been meager...
Janice Sweetser broke the Harvard record with a 4:54.26 in the 500-yd. freestyle trials, putting her in the coveted lane four for the finals. Penn State's Denise Sonntag was not deterred by Sweetser's position or her own meager lane one alottment, and scored a big upset with a 4:53.68, more than two seconds ahead of Sweetser...