Word: meagerness
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...preliminary research on projects that will take years to become rich money makers-if they ever do. Boeing, for example, was selected this month to begin work on the Airborne Warning and Control System. Though the project could be worth $2 billion by 1976, the initial payment was a meager $16.5 million...
Curious Drive. According to O'Leary, the Apollo moon harvest has been badly handled scientifically and has produced scandalously meager results. Yet as a scientist, O'Leary still champions a space program. "Space," he asserts, "is as cheap as six weeks' fighting in Viet Nam, cheaper than deploying a useless anti-ballistic missile system, and [it consumes] less than 5% of the present annual defense budget...
...Bentsen was lured back into politics by Yarborough's old foe, ex-Governor John Connally, in a well-organized drive to scuttle Yarborough. The conservative faction put together an effective campaign estimated to cost close to $2,000,000, relying heavily on television advertising, while Yarborough spent a meager $200,000. Connally's mentor, Lyndon Johnson, remained officially neutral, but Bentsen had the help of several old Johnson aides, including Press Secretary George Christian...
...race described as "unusually close" by Intramural Athletic Director Floyd Wilson. Kirkland House holds a meager three point edge over Winthrop House in the Straus Cup competition...
...continually surprised at the self-confidence and frankness of almost every Cuban I met. My meager knowledge of Spanish was little problem since every new acquaintance would listen patiently to my attempted phrases, trying to guess what I was trying to say if I wasn't able to put it in intelligible language. In Havana all the kids we met had seen our brigade in newsreels in movie theatres, and in film clips on TV. They loved to talk about how the Cuban national baseball team had beaten the American team for the world amateur championship this past fall...