Word: meagerness
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...have time for his daughter. As the weary and well-meaning father and parishioner of a convenience store-turned-Baptist church, he dispenses lines such as, “There’s nothing wrong with making church more convenient,” with forced chuckles to his meager congregation...
...substantial hurdle in the path of existing research in Massachusetts, including Harvard’s planned Stem Cell Institute. And the roadblocks stem cell researchers face are already large. President Bush has limited federal funding to only a few stem cell lines, and it was recently discovered these meager sources are irreversibly contaminated in a manner that makes them unsuitable for therapeutic use in humans. Short on money and short on stem cells, researchers do not need yet another governmental restriction on their work...
...position in PCs and fight off Dell, the market's low-cost leader. Though the merger had produced cost savings--and wrenching layoffs--profits remained hard to come by. In 2003, despite Fiorina's promises that operating margins would reach 3%, the company's PC division earned a meager 0.1% on $21.2 billion in sales. And last August, the company's Enterprise Servers and Storage Group, which sells to corporate customers, reported a $208 million loss for the quarter...
...await completion of a new church. Among the newcomers is Ben Liuzzo, 54, a financial-services manager who a few years ago moved his family from New York to North Carolina. He had thought Catholics in the area might be as outnumbered as Jews or Muslims--and that the meager church life that did exist wouldn't engage his 14-year-old son. Instead, the Liuzzos are attending standing-room-only services like St. Mark's teen Mass, complete with a pop-music ensemble that could be mistaken for one of the area's rollicking Christian rock bands. "This...
...problem at all unique to Harvard, it’s hard to pinpoint whether the lack of enthusiasm for the profession stems from the College or the student body, or both. In Eventual Vocation studies done by and on Harvard students over the last 15 years, a consistently meager two percent were teaching in elementary and high schools. When undergraduates were asked in surveys to assess their view on teaching, many replied that it is “one of the most important roles in society,” but that teachers are consistently “underpaid and under...