Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard held Princeton's All-Ivy forward Corneille Burt, who normally average 15 points, to a meager 10 points...
Miss Julie is slightly reminiscent of high school productions--only a lot better acted. It certainly warrants seeing because of the economical use of its meager props...
Louis Holland--a post-pubescent Holden Caulfield of the Nuclear Age, pasty white and forever dressed in black jeans and a white T-shirt--arrives in Somerville at age 23, cynical, disgusted with the frivolous expenditure of the late 20th century and braced for a life of meager existence. Shortly thereafter, he finds his stint at a local radio station cut short when the Church of Action in Christ, an organization tormenting abortion clinics across the Bay State Area, buys it out from his liberal boss...
...January. If that wasn't depressing enough, the government released a batch of year-end statistics last week confirming the economy's continuing dismal shape. Retail sales, which account for one-third of all U.S. economic activity, fell 0.4% in December. For all of 1991, they inched up a meager 0.7%, the smallest gain in three decades. The cutback in spending led to plant closures. Industrial output fell 0.2% last month, and shrank by 1.9% in 1991, the first yearly decline since the 1981-82 recession. One piece of good news did emerge. The weak economy managed to contain inflation...
...will the economic dislocation that has made life miserable for generations be altered overnight. The Center for Economic and Social Investigations, a private liberal think tank in San Salvador, estimates that one-fifth of the population controls two-thirds of the nation's wealth; the poor face meager prospects for finding jobs or improving their share. The government has earmarked $100 million to retrain ex-combatants, and foreign donors have pledged up to $1 billion in aid. But with unemployment at 50%, widespread illiteracy and a legacy of violence, El Salvador is unlikely to attract the kind of foreign investors...