Word: meagerness
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Aside from the skewed balance sheets, there are serious doubts about the country's intrinsic health. Its educational system is in crisis, its industries faltering, its investment in itself too meager. "In a world whose workers require ever more basic education, technological savvy and specialized skill," Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies write in their book Crystal Globe, "America's schools are the least successful in the Western world." Says ! Brookings' Steinbruner: "There's no way of overcoming disparity in economic fortune without overcoming the disparity in education." U.S. spending on civilian research and development is 10th in the world...
...huff, I gathered my meager funds and went to another bank, where I finally was able to open an account after giving my number verbally...
...headline at the Grand Ol' Opry. Most of the other tracks are just folkish filler. The only entertaining thing about the aimless, boring "We Hate it When Our Friends Succeed" is the title. It's mystery how he's managed to eke a hit out of the meager, colorless tune...
...White House economic forecast offer much solace to candidate Bush. It predicted a meager 2.7% growth rate for the year -- up from the January prediction of 2.2% but still sluggish. Two days before the forecast was issued, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, presenting the central bank's semiannual report, predicted that the weak recovery would become more stable sometime next year -- too late to help the President's re-election...
...once bustling Ciglane market nearby, frustrated shoppers picked through the meager offerings, then left with mostly empty plastic bags. There were potatoes the day before, but they sold out in less than five minutes. On Thursday huge cans of cucumbers were available for about half the average monthly wage. Bottles of beer and slivovitz -- hoarded or, as many mutter angrily, stolen -- are available at outrageous prices. Puzic bought toothpaste, soap and a bundle of broad coltsfoot leaves. "I've never eaten it before," she sighed with a dubious glance at the tough, shiny weeds normally used for treating asthma...