Word: meagerness
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...weeks ago, as the Verba Report on Affirmative Action was produced and quickly accepted by President Bok, my view was that, at best, it represented a rather weak gesture in view of the paucity of African-American faculty at Harvard. Now, even the meager efforts implied in the Verba Report stand in jeopardy of being weakened by the faculty...
...Government gave new credence to that view last week, when it reported that U.S. retail sales climbed a meager 0.4% in April, far below the 1%-to-2% gain many economists had expected. The feeble growth would have been weaker but for a jump in car sales that reflected the most generous incentives ever offered by Detroit, including interest-free loans...
...this continues, time could end up being to the '90s what money was to the '80s. In fact, for the callow yuppies of Wall Street, with their abundant salaries and meager freedom, leisure time is the one thing they find hard to buy. Their lives are so busy that merely to give someone the time of day seems an act of charity. They order gourmet takeout because microwave dinners have become just too much trouble. Canary sales are up (low-maintenance pets); Beaujolais nouveau is booming (a wine one needn't wait for). "I gave up pressure for Lent," says...
Perhaps Daniel's death colored my impressions. Moscow seemed incredibly dreary. I hadn't been there for 15 years. The darkness was striking. From the first moment, while we were still at the airport, it seemed as if the electricity had burned out and that the meager light was being supplied by a weak portable generator. The sense of abandonment and homelessness was aggravated by the piles of dirty, blackened snow along the sides of the dark streets. It hadn't been like that before. Where were the streetlights? Where had the stately yard keepers, who used to clean Moscow...
Back in 1983, when he graduated from Manassas High School in Memphis, Lafester was a hot property. Despite a 1.9 grade average and a meager 17 on his ACTs, he was courted by more than 80 colleges, some tempting him with offers of money, clothing and jewelry. "Assistant coaches would take me outside my house and show me some stuff," he remembers. For an 18-year-old, it was all too much. Lafester was six the last time he saw his father, and his mother had two failing kidneys. The family lived on her Social Security and disability checks. Lafester...