Word: meagerness
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...other Common Market five had talked of giving France the "empty-chair" treatment, carrying on their efforts for European unity and Atlantic partnership without the French. Yet what purpose would it serve to exclude France from NATO councils? None at all. Its contributions to allied fighting strength are sufficiently meager-it is two divisions behind its commitments in Germany, it withholds its Mediterranean fleet from NATO, keeps most of its metropolitan territory out of the air warning system, and even prohibits foreign nuclear weapons on French soil. Still, sheer geography gives France a veto on NATO planning. Could France...
...contemptuous of jumbo novels "for women who lie on sofas all day." But his best book, he feels, is a long novel about Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. It is called Sir William, and will be published in England by Faber & Faber. Stacton's U.S. sales have been meager, and his American publisher has no present plans to issue the book...
Some Flimflam. There is considerable flimflam even in this claim of meager cost cutting. Part of the "economizing" results from postal-rate increases already in effect. Another part is based on the hope-which may or may not be fulfilled-that private lenders will take over from the Federal Government several hundred million dollars worth of housing loans and farm price-support loans...
...rich. The most soaked victims of the present tax structure are taxpayers in the upper-middle income brackets, business executives and professional men who receive all or nearly all of their income from salaries (or from fees or royalties not sheltered from taxation). Such people typically have only meager net assets despite their hefty pretax incomes. Far from accumulating capital, they often have to borrow to put their children through college. They attain their levels of prosperity only after many years of gradually working their way up, bucking a headwind of ever higher tax rates. And as they approach their...
...Robin has his defenses, so does Katherine. Afraid of being hurt, she thinks the worst of people-and herself-to avoid being let down. In solitude, she tries to perfect her selfishness so that her happiness, meager as it is, will depend on no one else. When Robin wants to show love, he instead shows indifference. When Katherine feels love, she becomes cruel...