Word: meagerness
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...Harvard employees contributed $16,325 to Clinton while they gave a relatively meager $2,000 to Bush--with half coming from Bush's nephew, John P. Ellis, a fellow at the Institute of Politics...
...ASSU's operating budget weighs in near $300,000 yearly. The Undergraduate Council's budget is a relatively meager $120,000 a year...
...enjoy explosive success in the past decade while keeping chicken prices low for consumers. In Arkansas, poultry workers are probably no worse off than their brethren in Mississippi or Georgia, but their numbers are greater, and they are increasingly angry that their share of the chicken boom is so meager. "I think the poultry industry has been a blessing and a curse for Arkansas," says Carol Tucker Foreman, a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and the sister of Arkansas' Lieutenant Governor. "In some places, the workers are treated very badly...
...consider the Crimson's meager output in its last three games, that's saying something...
...dangerous as they were, also defined existence. Wood kindled forges and kept alive the hearths of the mud-and-thatch huts of the serfs. Peasants fattened their hogs on forest acorns (pork was crucial to basic subsistence in the cold of winter), and wild berries helped supplement the meager diet. In a world without sugar, honey from forest swarms provided the only sweetness for food or drink. The pleasures of the serfs were few and simple: earthy lovemaking and occasional dances and fests...