Word: meagerness
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...classes have morphed into all-day test-prep sessions. The merits of such cramming are unclear. Last summer only 40% of New York students who failed the city's exam managed to pass on a second try. Seattle canceled its summer "academic boot camp" after many students made only meager gains on tests...
Crashing down a row of tollbooths a week before the Senate election in the hopes of endearing Massachusetts voters essentially did just the opposite: They scoffed at his meager endeavor. Kerry pranced off to Washington leaving Weld in the dust without his coveted Senate seat. Splashing his name on The New York Times and Newsweek appeared to be his next sortie; however, his attempts to create another fifteen minutes of fame were demolished by the churlish Jesse Helms. For once, Helms, the bane of politics, had the right idea. Weld, seeking the illustrious position of Ambassador to Mexico, made himself...
Even more cruel, of course, is when the paycheck stops too. Just ask the 140 former employees at APBnews.com a Wall Street- based crime-reporting website that hired reporters for a salary in the low $40,000s--very low for a New York City dotcom--plus a meager 500 to 1,000 options. Once again, they turned out to be worthless when the site ran out of cash. As with most dotcom firings, the end was as swift as it was ignominious. News editor Jim Edwards returned from a vacation in Amsterdam to find his company had collapsed...
...public defender, I see criminal defendants all too often choosing to represent themselves against the immense power of the government with their own meager devices [LAW, June 12]. They make ham-fisted tactical decisions and inevitably fail to pursue viable defenses. For all their criticisms of lawyers, after inevitable guilty verdicts, these unfortunates are forced to conclude there is no substitute for an attorney by their side, to speak for those who were unable to speak for themselves. IRENE PAI, DEPUTY PUBLIC DEFENDER Orange County Public Defender's Office Orange, Calif...
...Champion of a simpler, flatter tax code, Dick "Short Form" Armey (R-Tex.) listed no assets and a meager teacher's pension as his only additional income... House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) is buried in student-loan debt... Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), a former investment banker, is worth over $5 million... Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), perhaps not surprisingly, is worth about $80 million... Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) put himself through law school playing the markets and made about $75,000 trading in 1999. "I wouldn't do it if it weren't profitable," he told...