Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hard times will aggravate the problem. Economists fear that the sluggish U.S. economy, which grew at a meager 1.3% pace in the first quarter, could help put an increasing number of debt-laden firms into bankruptcy court...
...king's daughter, Imogen, played by Lyn Wright, has a similarly meager repertoire of gestures. Furthermore, her flat delivery and stilted English accent can only irritate. When Imogen urges her servant, Pisanio, to "plunge thy dagger into the mansion of my love, my heart," the viewer is sorely tempted...
...Sandinistas raided the government's 40 percent of the nation's assets and high tax revenues to finance its lavish campaign. In contrast, UNO could only draw upon meager funds, as even once-wealthy families had been impoverished by inflation that peaked at 10,000 percent...
Eager to win official recognition from the Bush Administration, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) has turned up the propaganda noise and ladled out servings from a meager pork barrel. Billboards featuring Ortega nuzzling his daughter Camila, 2, dominate Managua, while the strains of the Sandinista campaign song (and old Beatles hit) All You Need Is Love blare from TVs and radios. The F.S.L.N. has distributed nearly a million toys in a country where playthings are a rarity, and has also handed out 1,000 parcels of land to farmers. Two weeks ago, Ortega pardoned the last of Nicaragua...
...Walsh's results, through little fault of his own, are meager. He has spent some $18.5 million, and still employs 17 full-time attorneys and a staff of 51. Yet unlike Watergate, in which 25 individuals went to prison, no one, not even Iran-contra's private contractors Richard Secord and Albert Hakim and the celebrated Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, has served time. In many ways Watergate, a political burglary that mushroomed into a massive cover-up, was less serious than the deliberate defiance of a congressional law, signed by Reagan, and the undermining of a publicly proclaimed policy...