Word: meagerness
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Butler currently leads the Ivy League in scoring with 18 points per game, but only tallied eight this weekend. The forward starter shot a meager--by Butlerian standards, anyway--23 percent from the field...
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, most of the 326 students in the chemistry class vie for the room's meager 250 seats. "Late-comers"--those who don't arrive at class before 8:55 a.m. for the 9:07 lecture--are often relegated to the aisles or the back of the room...
...rains have been plentiful, and the sorghum is growing. Still, in southern Sudan the old, the young and the weak are dying of starvation: a frail child is barely able to share a meager meal with his father at a feeding center; a desperately weak man stares at a bowl of water; another is huddled by the remains of a fire with a packet of rehydration salts. As earlier in Ethiopia and Somalia, this famine is in part the result of civil war. Initially the fighting pitted the Muslim government in Khartoum against Christian rebels in the south...
Otherwise, the "Aperto" is apocalyptic trivia, devoid of aesthetic impulse. Everything is on much the same dull, hectoring, narcissistic and politically simpleminded level; all complexity of artistic response has been ironed down into puerile rhetoric, one-liners that have no further resonance once you've got their meager point. Some have no point: How about a nice big wall covered in monochrome orange carpet, or a giant mound of Plasticine? The mix of witless conceptualism, pseudo documentary and weakly recycled minimalism is stifling...
Growth in GDP during the first quarter was a meager 0.9%, the weakest since...