Word: meagerness
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...housing prices perform so well for almost ten years return. Those elements may not come back with the force that they had in 2003, 2004, and 2005, but they must make a modest recovery for housing to recover. People have to be able to believe that they have some meager job security. A bank has to tell them that it wants their business. And, they have to feel that they can, if only rarely, get a raise...
...fail to convincingly convey the boat’s pageantry. Besides the necessities—a cane here, a bundle of cotton there—the props and set design lack the grandeur of the Old South. The actors, however, make do with the paucity of props and meager space of the cramped stage. Through their vivacious singing and dance routines, the performers ultimately create the illusion that the set does not. In its conjuration of the spectacle of the Old South and its incorporation of the onerous and horrid messes of reality, the Boston Conservatory Theater?...
...warships and 17 other boats defected from Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomingtang during China's civil war, becoming the first vessels in what would become the Chinese Communist government's Navy. To commemorate the occasion, China's military is hosting four days of pomp and ceremony, to recall its meager beginnings, and to celebrate how far it has come. (See pictures of China's economic expansion into Africa...
Folks in Allendale don't have extra money to spend. So the town's already meager tax base is eroding. If any of Allendale's 38 employees leaves, there will be no replacement. Jackson's dreams of a new police station are dashed. Now, he fears many of the remaining residents will leave. The other day, he showed up in town with two employment applications to cut grass at a nearby nuclear power plant. "Loads of people came up to me grabbing applications," Jackson says. Still, he's hopeful some of the federal government's stimulus money will help Allendale...
...Three years ago, Hill, who did a spell at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, made the nervy low-budget martial-arts parody The Foot Fist Way; it managed a limited release in 2008 and grossed a meager $234,286. But the only people who really have to see it are producers looking for directors, and Foot Fist did get noticed. This was thanks in part to the movie's rising star (and co-writer and UNCSA classmate) Danny McBride, who enlivened last year's Drillbit Taylor, Tropic Thunder and the Rogen-starring Pineapple Express, directed...