Word: meagerness
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...overhaul was long overdue. "The French economy we found on taking office was in a state of weakness," says Alain Juppe, a Deputy Minister for the Budget. As evidence, Juppe points to a meager 1.1% growth rate in 1985, an unemployment level of more than 10% (25% for youths under 25), a trade deficit of $3 billion, and a mounting budget shortfall that is now expected to hit $20 billion for 1986. The government hopes to solve these problems, says Juppe, with a policy based on "wisdom and economic liberty...
Squeezed into a raft designed to accommodate six, the eight survivors subsisted for four days and nights on meager rations of sea biscuits and gulps of water twice a day. "The days were barely tolerable," said Flanagan. "The nights were hell." The survivors used up their only three emergency flares and sighted six ships without being able to attract attention. Finally, on the fifth harrowing night, with Deckhand Leslie McNish using a flashlight to blink the international distress signal SOS, the shipwrecked survivors flagged down a Norwegian tanker 335 miles north of Puerto Rico and lived to tell...
...inseparable from real physical contact with real and complicated people. Playboy is first and foremost a magazine of unattainable fantasy objects. Its pictorials offer a world of anatomically perfect and nearly interchangeable surfaces. Mere flat images on a page. Such fantasies, of such predictable and derivative stereotypes, are pretty meager stuff for nurturing real intimacy and affection. The models' poses--depicting their subordination and submissiveness--offer little grounds for respecting women as equals and counterparts...
After decades of taking the initiative and then dickering patiently over meager and grudging Soviet concessions, the U.S. suddenly finds itself on the receiving end of a flurry of grand gestures and sly teasers. Last month Gorbachev released one of the Soviet Union's best-known prisoners of conscience, Anatoli Shcharansky, and promised Senator Edward Kennedy that 19 more refuseniks would be allowed to emigrate to the West. The Soviet leader thus multiplied the goodwill he had reaped for himself and also made sure that President Reagan would have to share credit with a leading liberal Democrat for this latest...
...contest could never really have been called fair. On one side was an ailing but wily autocrat, whose authority was waning but whose hands remained firmly clenched around the levers of political power. On the other was an unassuming but determined housewife-crusader, whose political resources were meager but whose brief and meteoric candidacy had fanned the desire of millions of her countrymen for political change. What had kept the mismatched sides in balance during the course of their 57-day election battle was a promise as potent in appeal as it was frail in prospect. The hope was that...