Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That exchange about expresses the aura that surrounds Glyndebourne, one of the world's finest music festivals. The very drizzle is sacred. Young singers vie for a place in the chorus. Never mind that the time commitment is extravagant and the pay meager. To perform on this stage is to be recognized as an artist, not just another pair of vocal cords...
Clinton, however, is unlikely to extend MFN without any conditions. The President boxed himself into a corner a year ago by issuing an Executive Order that made any extension of MFN past June 3 dependent on "significant progress" by China on human-rights issues. Given the meager improvements so far, Clinton & Co. are not going to find it easy to make a plausible case to the human-rights lobby -- or the American public. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week, 62% of respondents felt that encouraging human rights in China was more important than trade, and 60% said...
...made clear that it wants international support for any military action in Haiti, but to expect it from the European powers seems unrealistic. With Germany, France and Great Britain so loathe to muddy their ankles in Bosnia, prospects for aid look meager. The U.S. would expect the Europeans to at least contribute financial backing for an invasion of Haiti, but the affairs of the island nation simply don't concern them...
...half-century ago. German Expressionism was known only through a pitiful smattering of black-and-white reproductions, messages in a bottle from a Europe that seemed almost inconceivably distant -- 14,000 miles away and shrouded in another kind of cultural space. But when the sources of advanced style are meager, as they were in Australia in the '40s, beautiful deformities can arise -- if there's enough naked psychic pressure behind them to compensate, at least in part, for a thin diet of other...
With no place to hide, tens of thousands of refugees lined the roads in all directions, seeking a way out of the blood-soaked city; the streams of misery stretched for miles. Most were on foot, carrying meager bundles of possessions. Scores of people crowded into buses and clung to the sides of any vehicle that would attempt the twisting, mountainous roads. The wealthy raced away in luxury cars with private bodyguards, the barrels of automatic weapons jutting from every window. Danger still waited at checkpoints every mile or so, manned by demoralized and frightened Rwandan soldiers looking for loot...