You are not owed more from society by way of fair shares in virtue of the fact that your ambitions are large rather than small, demanding rather than undemanding, but you are owed more from society by way of fair shares in virtue of the fact that your initial resource holdings are scant or the fact that your native talent endowment is more meager than that of others.
Their education will be more meager, their prospects for employment more uncertain, their chance to own a home more unlikely, the possibility of one day retiring from their jobs to enjoy the fruits of their labor will be compromised.
They are more and more likely to spend their meager savings on a round-trip to Croatia since Ibiza sucks and has anyway become unaffordable.
As for the city and state police forces, their equipment and training are far more meager, and they are lightly scattered across a vast population.
One reason investors have been willing to swallow meager coupons on junk: the fact that coupons on Treasury bonds are even more meager.
Nobody expected taxes to be increased back to the Clinton-era rates on everyone, but the revenue gain was far more meager than anticipated by the White House budget planners.
Incentives for the two Green Party hopefuls in the 13th District were even more meager.
Citi's 12 percent return was more than double Bank of America's meager showing — and at first blush puts crisis-winner JPMorgan's 8 percent to shame.
While it is true that I use my iMac only for word processing, and that computers made in 1996 would be more than adequate for my meager needs, there is no Apple upgrade that I will not embrace joyously.
If there is a God, and it loves every child – the poor child, the Muslim child, the child without a church – its ways never have been more mysterious, to some, than meager state education budgets signed by well-heeled Christian governors.
