Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...term-bill revenue has sparked a heated debate over how the money should be used. A number of options have been put on the table; the leading possibilities include spending it on this year's Springfest and giving it to the myriad campus student groups that exist on a meager budget. The various options each has relative strengths and weaknesses. And $40,000, nearly half the council's annual budget, is by no means a small amount of money. How, then, should the council choose...
...score one for tree huggers turned fire bombers: the lynx is no longer a forgotten feline. But aside from that meager p.r. coup, the group committed as much an act of self-destructive futility as of terrorism; the fires didn't halt Category III, which Vail Resorts said would proceed more or less on schedule. The blazes won't even delay the start of the ski season...
...style or fashion. The clothes appeared to be a hodge-podge of no-name designers from a variety of seasons. The Fashion Association of Boston had to rely on alternate events such as a body image discussion panel and art and photography exhibits to stretch out the week's meager fashion offerings. Essentially, the intentions of the Fashion Association were "to establish a relationship with the public and the media...
...newsstands? Don't flatter yourself. On the other hand, in an age when anyone with a modem can publish a Web page accessible to all of planet Earth, who needs newsstands? You may not be a celebrity, and public interest in your sins may be meager. But as cyberspace grows, its ultra-narrowcasting will serve even meager appetites. So next time you scorn a lover or a friend, make sure she doesn't have Web-authoring software. Just imagine--your own personal Linda Tripp, mad as ever and now equipped with...
...parliament voted to make the Koran supreme law, clearing the way for a fundamentalist takeover of a country already made unstable by U.S. sanctions. Should the bill pass the upper house of parliament, it will grant unrestricted power for the state to enforce Islamic law, rolling back what meager secular checks currently exist. The bottom line, according to Pakistani analyst Paula Newberg, will be a severe reduction in civil liberties (i.e. freedom...