Word: meagerness
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...itself not only on the brink of political irrelevance but also on the edge of financial ruin. The value of its holdings have plummeted of late, a descent accelerated by Taiwan's struggling economy. KMT officials say the total value of all their assets have plunged to a relatively meager $1.6 billion. That includes $1.16 billion worth of businesses, real estate valued at more than $250 million and the rest in bank deposits, stocks and bonds...
...hoping to find a better world for herself and her infant daughter. But she soon discovered that life in Switzerland wasn't a box of chocolates. The 32-year-old Geneva office cleaner and single mom has been struggling to make ends meet on ?2,000 a month, a meager wage in a place where her one bedroom apartment alone costs ?800 a month. "Some months, after buying food and paying rent, utilities and health insurance, I have ?30 left in my pocket," says Diaz, who's looking for a second job. "That's not even enough...
Babies born with an X and a Y chromosome are often raised female despite the Y. The problem is that, as tissue engineering technology stands now, it is impossible to reconstruct male genitals out of meager amounts of penile tissue. But it is possible to construct normal female genitals out of what ambiguously gendered males have at birth...
...Yalu River across from China. He has heard that Kim Jong Il, North Korea's enigmatic dictator, intends to turn Sinuiju into a special economic zone. Li and the 4,000 other employees of Sinuiju Shoe Factory are hopeful that the promised boost in commercial activity will improve their meager lot. "This is all for the Korean people," Li says, standing among middle-aged women piecing together black and white sneakers on noisy sewing machines. "It makes the Korean people richer, with more to eat, more to spend...
...rare tour of Sinuiju highlights how badly the place needs China's example. In the spartan North Korean city, few cars motor on the wide streets, and the decaying department store has a meager selection of basic packaged food and dull clothing. At night, schoolchildren gather in the main square to read under the floodlights pointed at a statue of Kim Il Sung, the country's founder. It's the brightest spot in a city plagued by chronic electrical power shortages. Meanwhile, across the Yalu River in the Chinese city of Dandong, new, white buildings rise above the riverbank, traffic...