Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...City officials admit that children like Linda fall through the cracks. "We really haven't faced this before," said Marjorie Valleau, spokeswoman for the Child Welfare Administration. "I'd be hard pressed to name a specific program that specializes in the children." Which left the parents to their own meager resources. "They said what I did was cruelty," said Maria. "But when I begged them for help, they denied it to me. How can they say I was cruel...
...continued inflation as more and more prices are set free. That would be an explosive mix anywhere, but especially in the U.S.S.R. (or whatever loose confederacy may succeed it). Inefficient as the old communist economy was, it did provide jobs of a sort for everybody and a steady, if meager, supply of basic goods at low, subsidized prices; Soviet citizens for more than 70 years were conditioned to expect that from their government. Says a Moscow worker: "We had everything during ((Leonid)) Brezhnev's times. There was sausage in the stores. We could buy vodka. Things were normal...
However important it may be, genetics is not destiny. Nor is poverty, culture or racism insurmountable. In fact, a number of developing countries, working with meager budgets over the past 20 years, have surpassed many parts of the U.S. in health care. A man living in Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations, has a better chance of reaching age 65 than a man in Harlem...
...alone. The drama of the past two weeks has done little to alter the daily routine in Pushkino. On the sidewalk in front of state stores, residents lined up to choose from the usual meager selection of canned goods and wilting vegetables, the relentless rain of an early autumn only adding to their discomfort. Outside the textile factory where he works, Ivan Shlykov, 47, waited for a bus under a shelter latticed with a hammer and sickle. "They can throw away all these symbols and drive the Communist Party underground," he said, "but what difference does it make...
...Anderson's first cell was a cramped room in Beirut's Shi'ite slums where he lay chained and blindfolded. Later he and four others were moved to a basement dungeon that was partitioned into cubicles. The guards beat them and repeatedly threatened to kill them. , Food was a meager ration of bread, tea and cheese...