Word: meagerness
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...wave continues to roll forward, so I ask the clerk to sell my holdings at 53, netting me a fast -- if meager -- $2.50 gain. The purchaser at the other end was Salomon Brothers. Of course, if I had been a regular customer at All-Tech, I would have bought 1,000 shares and earned $250 (minus an $80 commission) on the transaction. Not bad for a few minutes' work...
...weak and silly, dazed from the regimen of opiates and alcohol she has administered to him as "tonics." The therapeutic tortures Will endures are grotesque, but the novel's direction is predictable, and all that the story must resolve is how long it takes Will to gather his meager wits and clear out. Loosely related subplots, thrown in to keep matters churning, deal with the efforts of a couple of con men to get rich in the cereal business and of Kellogg's bitter adopted son to take well-justified vengeance on the great doctor...
...ones rediscovered in the Gobi Desert, along the ancient Silk Road in the mountains of China, on the margin of the Argentine Andes and in the jungles of Laos and Thailand. Despite the remarkably small number of scientists working in the field -- only about 100 worldwide, splitting a meager $1 million in research funds -- a new dinosaur species is found on average every seven weeks...
When she returned to her apartment the next day, the tavern had been reduced to a smoldering relic. She resolved then and there to find a safer abode. She could afford little on her meager wages, but found an apartment on Euclid Street. Though it was only blocks away from the place she had fled, the quiet block, mostly occupied by working-class black families, seemed like a different world. She has been there ever since...
...variation on court-appointed attorneys, popular in rural areas, is a contract system under which lawyers receive a flat rate. The fee is usually so meager that these attorneys maintain a private practice on the side. Such a system, says Bright, results in "lawyers who view their responsibilities as unwanted burdens, have no inclination to help the client and have no incentive to learn or to develop criminal trial skills." When expenses mount, they economize by refusing the collect calls of their jailed clients. Under a contract system, says L.A.'s Tennenbaum, "you don't investigate...