Word: meagerness
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Harvard can offer no reasonable defense of our meager and parsimonious Thanksgiving vacation. Tuesday and Wednesday lectures record infamously low attendance anyway, and the loss of barely three academic days is more than compensated by a restorative and relaxing Thanksgiving with your family at home. Harvard students may live away from home most of the year, but Thanksgiving is a time to be with family and loved ones, not in a dorm room in Cambridge...
...create an epic high-budget adventure of Brad Pitt sailing through time, he came up with something perhaps more true to his independent roots. “The Fountain” is an innovative film with great acting and excellent cinematography squeezed out on a relatively meager budget. Bottom Line: Even if you’re not intrigued by seeing 1000 years pass by in 96 heady minutes, see “The Fountain” for its capturing otherworldly cinematography and engrossing original score...
...billion people in the developing world. Only 58 million Indians, out of the country's 1.1 billion population, earn more than $4,400 a year, according to New Delhi's National Council of Applied Economic Research. The challenge is to make consumers out of people whose disposable income is meager but growing...
...Harvard turned its play around, winning three straight frames to capture a 3-2 (25-30, 27-30, 30-24, 31-29, 15-12) victory.The key to the Crimson’s turnaround was its blocking defense. In game three, Harvard held Columbia (7-15, 1-11) to a meager .100 hitting percentage, forcing eight attack errors and allowing only 14 kills en route to a 30-24 win.“We really had a strategy,” McKinley said. “We started by taking them line, and then we decided to trust our blockers...
...realize, however, that the depiction of rape holds a different place in Japanese pop culture than it does here, and Tezuka's work needs to be contextualized in that culture. What raises eyebrows here exists as a fairly normalized depiction over there. The reasons for this go beyond my meager expertise but undoubtedly have something to do with use of art in a society that represses outward sexuality and expression...