Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Romney registers a meager 9% in TIME's poll of Republicans, but there are plenty of signs that conservatives are trying to overlook his past and fall in love. He won the straw poll at CPAC, and the endorsements are piling up. Romney has also picked up much of the political operation of Jeb Bush, who is the could-have-been candidate most longed for on the right. Money doesn't seem to be a problem either; Romney raised $6.5 million on a single National Call Day in early January. The campaign is flush enough...
...game against Cornell (12-15, 8-6), punishing the Big Red, 64-48, at Lavietes Pavilion. The win clinched the Crimson’s sole possession of the Ivy League title and the automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.Harvard’s defense held Cornell to a meager 32 percent field-goal shooting on the night. It also out-rebounded the Big Red, 40-28, and forced 16 turnovers. “Our offense is always created from our defense,” Lackner said. “Picking up our defense was what got us back...
...Petersburg, several hundred people gathered for a quieter but no less emotionally packed protest action in Moscow. They were mostly senior citizens, who argue that they have worked all their lives for the state and now are dying because they can't survive on the state's meager pensions...
...have shown that if you place a normal kitten, for example, in a completely dark chamber immediately after birth, the kitten will become irrevocably blind. As a result, doctors in developing nations are often reluctant to perform surgeries like cataract removals on children. The risks--infection, mostly--outweigh the meager rewards...
...consecutive months, the longest period of growth in the postwar era. So why are ordinary Japanese consumers like Maki Nobata behaving as if the country were still deep in recession? "I'm trying to cut back on spending," says the 36-year-old Tokyo accountant, who received a meager raise of less than $75 a month nearly two years ago and hasn't had another one since. Adding to her worries, Nobata doubts the pension system will be in place by the time she retires. "I feel like I need money for saving and insurance rather than for spending...