Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Your article "Long Lives Well Lived" explored the reasons that Asians in certain areas have an exceptional life expectancy [July 21]. I have observed that the Buddhist monks of Thailand's Forest Tradition, despite eating only one meager meal a day and sleeping only four to six hours a night, tend to live very long lives. The tranquillity of their minds promotes longevity. Naturally, eating more food requires the body to work harder to digest it, resulting in more wear and tear on the body's organs; similarly, a tranquil mind requires little energy. Genetics plays only an indirect role...
...charting a course of zero growth for next year after two successive years of meager increases, the Corporation has opted to preserve the endowment rather than bail out schools during the current recession...
...market's ups and downs. Problem is, they often act at the wrong time and make less than they would have if they had done nothing at all. While the S&P 500 returned an annualized 12.2% from 1984 through 2002, the average stock-fund investor saw a meager 2.6% yearly gain--which didn't even outpace inflation (ringing in at 3.1%), according to a recent study by Boston research firm Dalbar Inc. The reason: the average investor held fund shares for just 30 months, often mistiming the market. Bond-fund investors held shares for 34 months on average...
...crammed next to the less than modest Burger Kings, and any-thing-you-want-to-wolf-down-for-two-dollars eateries. Sickeningly unhealthy offerings from the school lunch program (one participant told me that his school serves green salami sandwiches) and a host of other factors brimming from meager incomes make their obesity understandable...
...morality was built on a sincere belief in leading a virtuous life, serving the country he loved and hoping to achieve salvation through good works. That led him to make the link between private virtue and civic virtue and to suspect, based on the meager evidence he could muster about God's will, that these earthly virtues were linked to heavenly ones as well. As he put it in the motto for the library he founded, "To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine...