Word: meagerness
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...have insisted they're not open to further discussion on reducing subsidies, not now or in 2008, when Britain hopes to secure a mid-term review of spending priorities. Indeed, the biggest accomplishment Blair can claim is creating a ... BUDGETARY BROUHAHA On paper, the E.U. budget amounts to a meager sum, roughly 1% of the gross national income of all member states - substantially less than the annual €180 billion-plus they spend, in aggregate, on defense, for instance. Yet the debate over allocating this money creates rivalries that sometimes seem to need all those armies and tanks just...
...high-handed bureaucracy and restore ties with Russia. Many voters hoped that such an alliance would ease the burden of cleaning up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster next door in Ukraine, which contaminated almost 23% of Belarus and still costs the government nearly 25% of its meager $3 billion budget. The Batska promised to prevent Russian-style plunder of the new nation by capitalist oligarchs. But voters never imagined he would take them back to the Stalinist past. Once in office, he rolled back privatization, stifled economic reforms, renationalized most banks, stepped up centralized controls and preserved collective farms...
...that janitors currently receive are unjustifiable; with a new contract, Harvard has the opportunity to show workers, students, and the larger public that it cares about the living conditions of these important members of our community.Currently, employees at the bottom of Harvard’s income ladder work for meager wages. A minority of them receive full-time employment at Harvard. Many must work two or three jobs to support themselves and their families. Harvard’s wages compare poorly to those of its local peer institutions. Many low-income workers who have worked here for five...
...best, most agree that the classic savory rice dish has but one true capital: Valencia. The medieval poor of this southern Spanish city were apparently the first to hit upon the idea of adding scavenged morsels of meat and vegetables to rice as a way of enlivening an otherwise meager diet - and the paella was born. Servants would take banquet scraps home, and farm laborers would search the fields for bits of vegetables and small game, with all of it ending up in the flat-bottomed pans that are still used to make paella today. These peasant origins...
...best, most agree that the classic savory rice dish has but one true capital: Valencia. The medieval poor of this southern Spanish city were apparently the first to hit upon the idea of adding scavenged morsels of meat and vegetables to rice as a way of enlivening an otherwise meager diet-and the paella was born. Servants would take banquet scraps home, and farm laborers would search the fields for bits of vegetables and small game, with all of it ending up in the flat-bottomed pans that are still used to make paella today. These peasant origins...