Word: meagerness
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When my father was young he used to escape Brooklyn by going to Europe for the summer, taking his meager English teacher’s pay and using it all on a flight and two months of living abroad. He likes to tell us that back then nobody could e-mail you money and credit cards didn’t exist. I heard him recounting this once again to my college roommate who had come to stay the night at my house in Brooklyn the day before we would begin our own escape...
...derision and embarrassment at the figures they heard," says David Buik, a market analyst at the London brokerage firm BGC Partners. "It wasn't antipatriotic but rather the expression of enormous frustration at seeing so much money and effort made to stimulate economic and industrial activity for such meager returns." (See pictures of the economic crisis in London...
...tell the story of the people who were inspired by his message of change - themselves included. "This musical is not about politics but about the effect Obama has on people," Hutchins says. "Making the musical resembled Obama's story in a way. We had very little in the beginning, meager means, a meager budget ... Obama inspired me to reach higher." Their plan is to take Hope on tour across Germany and then the rest of Europe. Hutchins acknowledges that it may be commercially difficult to take the show to the U.S., however, given the current gloom surrounding the Obama presidency...
...simply consented to take a back seat, making up for a meager six points by dishing out nine assists—most of which found Harvard’s trio of up-and-coming rookies, Christian Webster, Dee Giger, and Casey...
...investigate extraterrestrial sightings and the country's longest official inquiry into UFOs. From 1952 until 1969, more than 12,000 reports were compiled and either classified as "identified" - explained by astronomical, atmospheric or artificial phenomenon - or "unidentified," which made up just 6% of the accounts. Because of such a meager percentage and an overall drop in sightings, officials axed the program and ended the research. So much for the truth being out there...