Word: meagerness
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...best-known thoroughfare—cars whizzing past on both sides, their drivers tossing cigarette butts and empty Pringles cans out their open windows—is one of the sad neglected spaces that permeate America’s highways: the median of the Pike. The meager, desolate territory may be known to few and loved by none—but if one turnpike administrator has his way, all that could change...
...single day's trading? After the frenzy of initial market listings peaked in 2000, IPO madness in Europe abated before almost disappearing completely in 2003. But talk to any banker now and you'll hear that 2004 is the year of the IPO comeback. European IPOs fetched a meager €5.6 billion in 2003, well below the height of 398 billion in 2000, according to Dealogic, which tracks transactions. Bankers say European IPOs this year could easily total €30 billion. The biggest deals expected: Belgacom, worth some €4 billion, and the €2.5 billion listing of Deutsche Post...
...girlie magazines ?stroke books? - instruments of onanism, marital aids for those far short of marriageable age and barely on the cusp of puberty. The typical girlie mag was tatty, printed on coarse paper, with only a few pages of runny color; they were the Ace paperbacks of voyeurism. Their meager, TV Guide-size dimensions meant that any model on display in their cramped surroundings had no acuter definition than a woman undressing across the courtyard, behind a screen, in the dark. I suppose that the dingy quality of the girlie pix, like the furtive circumstances of their purchase, was part...
...good news and bad. Yes, they will be leaving tonight for the Libyan border, but they will be making the trip in a single well-worn flatbed truck. "It's just luck which truck you wind up in," Abdi Salan says. The Somalis cram into the back with their meager belongings and are told to stay silent. They roll out of Khartoum in the pitch-black night at about 40 km/h. Abdi Salan has just one thought: at this rate it will take a lot longer than 48 hours to reach Libya. FROM KHARTOUM TO KUFRA The smugglers aren...
Even more importantly, Pöck is tied for third in the nation in power play goals, having amassed six thus far in the season. This is particularly impressive considering Massachusetts has managed only 13 power play goals the entire season, giving the team a meager 18.3 percent power play conversion...