Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House economic forecast offer much solace to candidate Bush. It predicted a meager 2.7% growth rate for the year -- up from the January prediction of 2.2% but still sluggish. Two days before the forecast was issued, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, presenting the central bank's semiannual report, predicted that the weak recovery would become more stable sometime next year -- too late to help the President's re-election...
...once bustling Ciglane market nearby, frustrated shoppers picked through the meager offerings, then left with mostly empty plastic bags. There were potatoes the day before, but they sold out in less than five minutes. On Thursday huge cans of cucumbers were available for about half the average monthly wage. Bottles of beer and slivovitz -- hoarded or, as many mutter angrily, stolen -- are available at outrageous prices. Puzic bought toothpaste, soap and a bundle of broad coltsfoot leaves. "I've never eaten it before," she sighed with a dubious glance at the tough, shiny weeds normally used for treating asthma...
...stay away from Grendel's on JFK Street, where the portions are meager and dishes unremarkable...
...take-out enterprise--but still popularamong our reviewers--is Swensen's, on Brattle St.Swenson's doubles as a David's Cookies, and thesmell of freshly baked cookies permeates the room.With no seats, Swensen's has little ambience--thecrowded store is covered with loud wallpaper andthe floor space is meager. Its prices are the sameas Baskin Robbins'--$1.43 for a single scoop,$2.38 for a double...
...Peale, America's first still-life artist, had been doing around 1815. But Harnett hit his stride in the 1880s, and in fact the most beautiful painting in this show, The Artist's Letter Rack, dates from 1879: an image of letters, visiting cards and a theater ticket, the meager index of an artist's social life, held by a crisscrossed square of pink tape to an unvarnished pine board. Everything is actual size, and the flatness of the board corresponds to the flatness of the painting, so that the illusion is nearly absolute. The pencil and chalk marks...