Word: meagerness
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...father?s election closed one door, it opened another. Despite his meager qualifications - he only finished a few years of university and had worked as a journalist for about nine years - Jean-Christophe in 1986 was named chief presidential adviser on African affairs. He soon gained a reputation for currying favor with African leaders on behalf of the Elysée, delivering messages dictated by the President - thus earning him the nickname Papa-m?a-dit (Daddy told me). His undistinguished diplomatic career, constantly shadowed by rumors and unfavorable press coverage, concluded in 1992 as he left the halls...
Farras Khan Shinwari starts work early, before the sun has risen over the red plains of Karkhla, 15 km east of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. After a meager breakfast of tea and dry nan with his brothers, he starts sprinkling water on the mound of red clay they will mix and form into bricks. All around him on the plain, hundreds of illegal Afghan migrants squat barefoot in the clay, forming bricks with their hands for less than a dollar a day. Even the pittance they get here is more than they could make at home in Afghanistan. Farras will...
...district's hippest gallery, Epistrofi (meaning "return"), for a view of works by upstart artists, mainly of the Greek diaspora. And wrap it all up with a visit to Dimitris', one of the oldest barbershops in Athens (sorry ladies, this is a treat for men). There, for a meager $7, you can indulge in a trim-and-a-shave that has shipping titans, politicians and common folk queuing for that timeless "garçon"; look. What next? Be daring. Face west, a slant to the south, and walk ahead. Fear not the toe-nipping traffic that suddenly re-emerges...
...response to these atrocities was meager, if it existed at all. And the probability of the U.S. responding to similar events in the future seems faint and unlikely. For we remember that the Taliban—which now must be destroyed to bring peace to the world and dignity to the suffering people of Afghanistan—was, but a month ago, far from administrators’ minds. We remember that Bush campaigned on an explicit platform of not venturing into foreign lands to spread and protect the values that Americans hold dear...
...story for Harvard this year thus far has been offense. The Crimson has already scored 22 goals in just seven games, compared to a meager 18 goals throughout last year’s entire 17-game campaign...