Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small liberal-arts school with a meager endowment and a largely local reputation is an "endangered species," contends Diane Ravitch, an Assistant Secretary of Education. By the year 2000 some of these schools will have closed their doors or merged with larger, more stable schools. Meanwhile, new schools will open. Some will be two-year community colleges emphasizing service-oriented courses. Others may be small, publicly funded schools with innovative liberal-arts programs, like the University of South Florida's New College or Evergreen State College in Washington. And there will be much more intercollege cooperation, as neighboring schools share...
...activity, Strauss, who has never before lived abroad, is far from happy in Moscow. He and his wife miss their family and friends and the comforts of life in the U.S. Routine diversions are meager: on weekends he might shop for souvenirs or artwork in the Old Arbat near Spaso House, then return home and warm up canned chili for lunch. "Helen and I gave up a life we simply loved to come over here," Strauss says. "We didn't do it because I wanted to add another title to my resume or to be exposed to a Russian winter...
PRETEND YOU'RE an observant Jew at Harvard. After years of being an undergraduate prisoner to Charlie Tuna, limited to a meager malnutritional diet of Star--Kist and cheese--despite paying full board costs--Mike Berry, head of Dining Services/Mealtime Messiah has taken the first steps to setting you free. You can now be carefree and consume such kosher cuisine as a knish from the Dunster kosher table. For the first time you can be fully integrated into the dining hall scene...
...wearing a suit. Whereas feminism was hip and fashionable in the '70s, antifeminism became socially acceptable in the '80s. First the fundamentalist right, then the White House -- and ultimately Hollywood, television and many journalists -- held feminism responsible for "every woe besetting women," Faludi writes, "from mental depression to meager savings accounts, from teenage suicides to eating disorders to bad complexions...
While this report is detailed on potential punishments for public service programs which neglect those guidelines, the actual guidelines are very meager indeed. They include a virtual reproduction of the PBHA vehicle policy, the University shuttle bus policy, and then clear statements such as "adequate training of student volunteers, along with consistent positive relationships between Harvard students with the communities they serve, are two crucial areas that must be addressed, in order to provide high quality safe programs...