Word: meagerness
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...repetitively pledges allegiance to. I hope I am not the first to inform Sen that in reality trickle-down provides just that: a trickle. The unfathomable abundance of wealth the upper class and the educated "elite" monger through the noble pursuit of investment banking is directly proportional to the meager scraps for the rest of us at the bottom. WILLIAM F. AUSTIN...
...they are suffering financially and complain that bars continuing to allow smoking have been largely unpunished and are profiting nicely. In the first six months of 1998 there have been 408 complaints, but the city of Los Angeles has issued only three citations for smoking violations. Statewide, similarly meager enforcement is reported...
...Saturday Night Live (remember Opera Man? Cajun Man? why?) now joins Will Smith and Jim Carrey as top movie money earners under 40. And in Hollywood, for just this moment, he is an even rarer commodity: a bargain. After three days in the plexes, The Waterboy made back its meager $23 million budget...
...term-bill revenue has sparked a heated debate over how the money should be used. A number of options have been put on the table; the leading possibilities include spending it on this year's Springfest and giving it to the myriad campus student groups that exist on a meager budget. The various options each has relative strengths and weaknesses. And $40,000, nearly half the council's annual budget, is by no means a small amount of money. How, then, should the council choose...
...score one for tree huggers turned fire bombers: the lynx is no longer a forgotten feline. But aside from that meager p.r. coup, the group committed as much an act of self-destructive futility as of terrorism; the fires didn't halt Category III, which Vail Resorts said would proceed more or less on schedule. The blazes won't even delay the start of the ski season...