Word: meagerness
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...factor during China's Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989. Consumer price inflation stirs up the middle classes because it can quickly erase years of hard-won personal gains. And inflation can be particularly cruel to the poor, because families are forced to spend a larger share of their meager incomes on necessities. UNICEF estimates that an additional 1.8 million children in India may be on the brink of malnutrition due to high food costs as households scale back on meals. In the Philippines, farmers, unable to afford fuel for tractors, are reverting to water buffalos to plow their paddies...
...them in Spanish. They said they had crossed the border the previous morning, bound for Phoenix. From there, they had expected to disperse in search of work harvesting crops. They had covered some 25 miles (40 km) before being caught. Standing with their plastic jugs of water, a few meager supplies on their backs, they looked dazed by the array of force that had gone into their capture: the trucks, the ATVs, the radios, the guns, the bird. If they had been picked up in Yuma Sector, they would have been headed for jail. But there aren't enough courtrooms...
...furiously forward and cast their nets in a wide, swooping arc, and drag them back to shore; not once, in an hour, did they catch a single fish. The sea around Gaza is empty; factories are closed, and over 80% of the territory's 1.5 million residents live on meager food handouts from U.N. relief agencies...
...under $1 a day are giving up protein once a week or vegetables." And those on 50¢ a day or less, like the people of Karamoja, are simply cutting out meals. Men and women say they were eating at most once a day before WFP came with its meager rations. "We've just been surviving selling firewood and burning [wood to make] charcoal," says Cecelia Amaitukei, a Lokali food-aid recipient...
...This agreement is so meager and poor, it achieves only the American security benefits and nothing for Iraq or the Iraqi people," said parliamentarian Umar Abdul Satar, a member of the main Sunni political bloc. "I don't know how the government will persuade itself or the parliament or the people...