The New Bottom Line, a self-described "coalition of grass-roots, people of faith, homeowners, and workers," called the settlement a "paltry down payment".
(In one of her notebooks, her handwriting scrawls these paltry payments and bills owned, the numbers rarely balancing).
Album sales are still in decline and musicians continue to protest what they view as paltry payments from streaming services, leaving them to prop up their businesses with other revenue streams like touring.
Today, children who don't obey their parents may be just a paltry credit card payment away from living out their remaining days in space, thanks to the Mars One project.
Given the changes in odds above, losing Sterling would lead to an expected drop of about five hundred thousand pounds in merit payments — a paltry sum relative to his salary.
Yet projections from the European Commission show that even then the newcomers' farmers will receive a paltry euro5 billion a year (about $5 billion at today's rates) in direct payments, while those of the current members will still get euro45 billion.
But it cut forecasts of revenues in 2001, leading to a sharp sell-off of its shares.Debt dilemmasRussia agreed to interest payments of a paltry $10m on Soviet-era debt that is not part of a rescheduling deal with the Paris Club of western debtors.
It was pointed out that Global Payments has but a paltry 3.5% share of the market, servicing "only" 800,000 or so merchant accounts.
The only difference between their lot and slavery is the payment, probably to their parents, of a paltry $14 a month.
The NHL's cable deal with ESPN, owned by The Walt Disney Co., would have paid the league a paltry $60 million for 40 regular season games–half its average payments for the previous five years.
