Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even a nation accustomed for some time to meager supplies and long lines has been stunned by the utter disappearance of milk, meat, produce and even bread. Some stores have taken to closing early in the day for lack of anything to sell. To halt worsening shortages, Leningrad took the dramatic step of introducing rationing of key staples last week. Moscow is also debating emergency measures. The Supreme Soviet has given Gorbachev until the end of this week to come up with a plan to halt shortages in major industrial areas. Addressing a meeting of the Moscow City Communist Party...
...While Bradley suffered a Florio problem, Cuomo's meager showing represented a vote against Cuomo himself -- against his aloofness and his governance. "We must learn to do more with less," Cuomo said during his first term. But state spending has soared, New York's overall tax burden is in the stratosphere, the state's budget deficit is close to $1 billion, and Cuomo's massive spending programs are perceived as having had little if any impact on crime and poverty...
...Lyman Common Room opened its doors in early October. Formerly a seldom-used ballroom, meager funds transformed the space into a cafe-like area complete with couches, television sets, bulletin boards and books. Staffed from noon until midnight, the Common Room is a place where women can relax, hold meetings and obtain information...
More vocal than the calls for political and military reform are pleas for social change, especially for women. With an increasing number of women attaining university degrees, complaints of meager career opportunities are rising. Because Wahhabism forbids the free mixing of the sexes, educated women are mainly confined to jobs in teaching, nursing and social services that do not put them in contact with men. "We have got to change," says a well- educated Saudi woman in Dhahran. "Some fear that we are like sponges that would soak up the negative with the positive from the West...
...race two weeks ago, Murphy made it through the revolving door of politics and onto the TV as an expertcommentator on the primary returns. The smallcrowd in the bar still cheered when she appearedon screen. And as the numbers were tallied at onepoint, they applauded Murphy's meager 3 percent...