Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July, to falling U.S. corporate profits, which declined 12% in the first half of 1990. Meanwhile, the savings and loan crisis inspired regulators to impose strict new lending standards, which helped bring on a credit crunch earlier this year. Homebuilding, a key barometer of economic health, sank to a meager annual rate of 1.18 million units in June, the lowest level since 1982. Although rising consumer spending kept the expansion rolling during the 1980s, consumer outlays were flat in the first half of this year as cautious Americans trimmed back their buying...
...suggested 47 cuts in health care, agriculture subsidies, federal loan guarantees and other giveaways good for $16 billion in savings next year, Panetta countered with a "core package" of reductions worth only $5.6 billion. Paltry though his offer was, Panetta lacked much support from fellow Democrats for even those meager measures. "None of our guys were ready to do that much," said a Democratic participant. Meanwhile, loyalty on the Republican side has broken down, especially on taxes. In recent weeks the Administration has floated several revenue proposals, probing gently for reaction to possible taxes on energy and stock transactions...
...light, a cornucopia of opportunity, freedom and the little courtesies available wherever the customer is king. "They're so nice," chortled housewife Gerda Hubner as she walked out of a brand new Meyer food market on East Berlin's Leipziger Strasse. She carried a shopping bag with a few meager purchases -- milk, oranges, bread and cheese. She also carried a yellow rosebud. "They're giving these to all the ladies," she said. "They really want our business." The Meyer chain is one of hundreds of West German companies that have moved with lightning speed into a potentially lucrative market: East...
...Eastern Europe since World War II. The transaction gave GE control of a respected 100-year-old company that last year exported nearly two-thirds of its output, or $180 million worth of bulbs, to West European countries, which pay in hard currency. The deal boosts GE's meager 1% share of Western Europe's lighting market to 9%. That share could prove particularly valuable if the European Community decides to impose quotas on non-Community products after it becomes economically unified...
...used its riverfront location to attract nine casinos since 1986. The town boasts more than 4,000 rooms in such hotels as Harrah's Del Rio and Circus Circus's Colorado Belle. Another 5,500 rooms are being built. However, the frantic pace of construction has strained Laughlin's meager civic resources. The town suffers from shortages of housing, labor and water and must send high school students across the river to Bullhead City, Ariz., until its own school can be built...