The myth of medical research is colossal grants and egos to match, but I went looking for a scientist working on the margins, toiling away with meager funds against a condition everyone would just as soon ignore.
With meager funds and a compressed time horizon, the club favored cheap, volatile technology companies -- stocks like Antennas America and StemCells.
But some parents of students at the school said that mismanagement preceded the financial crisis, and that a sudden rise in tuition in 2009 had led to the departure of many students, and that the problem had been made worse by a lack of investment and meager fund-raising efforts.
Despite her enthusiasm, Sclafani offered only a few funded programs, all with (by Washington standards) meager funding.
As a result, more young faculty are competing for meager funds.
He ticks off big problems: a dearth of doctors who specialize in geriatrics, meager funding for prevention of diseases like Alzheimer's, and fragmented long-term care services.
Judge Hunter's decision represents the latest breaking point in a rolling crisis of indigent defense in Louisiana, where meager funding has forced court-appointed attorneys across the state into triage mode.
The meager funding available from the state is only a small step in that direction, the administrators say.
In the summer of 1983, I was hanging around in Paris, living in a cheap hotel room with no shower or toilet, channelling my meager funds into screenings at the Cinémathèque (which had two theatres then, one at the Palais de Chaillot and the other on the fifth floor of the Pompidou Center), and filling notebooks early mornings in a café at the Place de la Contrescarpe (see "A Moveable Feast").
Mr. Child's daunting Jack Reacher, the Paul Bunyan of the thriller world, is a drifter who's known to travel so lightly that his toothbrush, passport and meager funds are his only baggage.
We had meager funds in those days.
