Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's solicitude for the foundation might seem misguided. Its members are mostly staunch Republicans unlikely to boost the President's meager chances of carrying Florida in 1996, whatever he does. But a foundation- spurred surge against Democrats could cost Florida Governor Lawton Chiles his job in November. Also, generosity toward Cubans seeking to enter the U.S. would put Clinton at odds with a powerful sentiment against illegal immigration that is gaining strength in key states like Texas and California...
...that does not seem worthy of a great university such as Harvard particularly one with Harvard's financial acumen. On a personal level, I have been deeply moved by observing how an inappropriate policy decision condemns a friend to spend her retirement years with a significant portion of her meager retirement income forever lost to the IRS. Wendell Benway
...fairly safe to say that he was not living by meager means," says Malcolm A. Heinicke '93, a friend of Lee who lived in Eliot House...
...Western powers have not used what meager authority they have to force the factions into more humane behavior. The U.N. Security Council two years ago asked the five-member Commission of Experts to investigate reports of atrocities. A year ago, after the panel concluded that "grave breaches" of international law had been committed, the Security Council created an 11-judge international court to deal with them. Little has happened since. The judges "are like firemen polishing their engines, waiting for a fire," says an international lawyer. They have prepared rules of procedure and evidence, but the court's offices...
...continued delay. Some activists are warning of the risks of social explosion if something is not done to break the desperate cycles of life in America's poorest precincts. "The conditions are desolate now," Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros warned Clinton, after Cisneros visited housing projects in Chicago. "With meager public resources coming in, what people would do in desperation, I don't know. But what I do know is that some intellectual arguments made around a conference table in Washington are far removed from the concerns of real people...