Word: meagerness
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...calamity that has spawned rumors and speculation for months. China, the world's most populous nation, is suffering from the worst-and least publicized-series of natural disasters since its 1976 Tangshan earthquake. Some 20 million people in two widely separated regions of the country are living on meager government-supplied cereal rations as they cope with the twin catastrophes of flood and drought. For the first time in its 31-year history, the Chinese Communist regime has been forced to issue a circumspect appeal for large-scale international aid. So extraordinary is the request, and so explosive...
...small breaks. The nation's minimum lending rate was reduced from 14% to 12%, a move designed to stimulate new investment and reduce the cost of British exports. At the same time, however, the oil and banking industries were hit with new taxes. Spokesmen complained that the meager benefits in the budget package would do little to relieve the plight of most businesses. "I share the disappointment everyone will feel," said a somewhat apologetic Howe. "But I am determined to sustain firm action in the battle against inflation. To change course now would be fatal...
However, he revealed that the department found "meager" the K-School's advertising in minority and women's interest media--a criterion the Woman's Equity Action League (WEAL) used when it kicked off the K-School controversy with its complaint last October...
...trouble facing the S and Ls is that savers are no longer content with the meager 5½% yields on passbook savings accounts, which have long been the main source of money for lending by the thrifts. Instead, they are putting their resources into money market mutual funds, where 16% interest was common last week, or into the thrifts' own money market certificates, which yielded 15% interest. During the past year, an estimated $28 billion has flowed out of savings accounts into other forms of savings...
...weekend they didn't expect to lose big, but then they didn't really expect to win big, either--which they did, annihilating all opposition and ending the day with 90 points, against a surprised Big Green with 60, unsurprised Brown with 34, and poor Albany State with a meager...