Word: meagerness
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Though the practical results of Thompson's experiment are meager so far, other states -- like Ohio, Arkansas and Kansas -- are experimenting with economic incentives of their own. And under the influence of a Republican Administration that prefers self-help to government assistance, such ideas are likely to gain momentum...
...book Rights Talk, Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School argues that the nation's legal language on rights is highly developed, but the language of responsibility is meager: "A tendency to frame nearly every social controversy in terms of a clash of rights (a woman's right to her own body vs. a fetus's right to life) impedes compromise, mutual understanding, and the discovery of common ground...
Mullis instantly recognized he had solved a problem that had fettered genetic research for decades: the fact that DNA samples are often too meager to work with. He turned to his girlfriend, also a biochemist, to explain his idea. "I thought this was a really cool invention that would make me famous," he recalls, "but she wasn't terribly thrilled about...
After the Palestinian question, the hottest political issue in Kuwait concerns the right to vote. Until now, the franchise has been limited to male Kuwaitis who can trace their roots in the country to before 1920, a meager total of about 65,000 people, a figure that is less than 10% of the present Kuwaiti population...
...Louisiana, a state with a large black vote. At the rally at a downtown convention center he delivered a typically bombastic Save Our Nation spiel, including his usual appeal to overhaul welfare and do away with quotas and set-aside programs for minority businessmen. The rally drew a meager audience of 30 people and was pitiful as a fund raiser. Duke, however, profited handsomely: he got a chance to soften his racist image without saying anything...