Word: meagerness
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...flying studio, launched in a blaze of publicity in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. The IPO filing reveals that DreamWorks' animation division lost more than $350 million over the past five years. It also warns of a litany of potential pitfalls, from the studio's meager slate of big-budget films to its undersized library of movies from which to generate cash during lean years...
...this is Mitsubishi's "last chance." Analysts say it may already be too late. Japan has 11 companies making cars and trucks, while the total market has shrunk by about a quarter since its 1990 peak. Mitsubishi's market share in passenger- and mini-cars has sunk to a meager 3.8%. The company "could disappear tomorrow, and no one would miss it," says John Harris, a Tokyo-based auto consultant...
...America's choices in Iraq are meager. Short of a complete makeover, which would cost at least $1 trillion and take 20 to 30 years, the only practical solution is to apologize and give Iraq $100 billion to repair the damage we have done and put someone like Saddam Hussein in charge. Although the man's behavior was demonic, we have found that we cannot run his country without using some of his methods. Paul N. Nash Oakton...
While a graduate student at Magdalen and then a fellow at Oxford’s Jesus College, Ferguson supplemented his study of history—and his meager scholar’s income—with freelance journalism...
Automakers have strong incentives not to ramp up hybrid production too quickly. Hybrids are technologically complex and costly and require the retraining of service technicians. Toyota and Honda insist they make money from each sale, but those profits are meager compared with what they earn from conventional cars and light trucks, especially their luxury brands. The Big Three--Ford, GM and Chrysler--are even more reliant on SUVs and big pickups for profits, and if hybrids eat into sales of conventional models, the industry would be maiming a critical cash cow. So while auto executives talk of a greener future...