Given the existing meager support, it is surprising that some American scholars have been able to make substantial contributions to Dead Sea Scrolls publications and to Semitic studies.
The New York region, which has long paid more in taxes than it receives in federal spending, stands to lose a great deal as the Bush administration slashes the existing meager support for urban programs like work-force development, low-income housing, community development grants and support for arts and culture.
However, counterarguments can be devised, and the existing evidence is meager and inconclusive.
"Everyone's tired of bloodying their foreheads against the walls of existing distribution channels and against such meager rewards," said Brian Carroll, the e-commerce editor at Furniture Today.
And with federal investment in this area also meager, supercomputing in this century has meant stringing together existing commercial processors.
Under Armour's existing digital (and wearable) product portfolio, while meager compared to its competitors, is completely devoid of activity, as the company offers a $150, wearable health tracker and chest strap called Armour39.
The governor's own proposal to raise sales taxes by.5percentt for four years garnered meager support from the crowd, which voted neither to raise existing rates nor expand the sales-tax base to include some legal, entertainment and personal services.
Millions of the insects have deluged the desert nations at the height of their crucial planting seasons, devouring seedlings and existing crops of millet and sorghum, staples of their meager diets.
While offerings vary among the existing services, what is clear is that their popularity, while growing, remains meager compared to the popularity of the free music downloads.
"This November' open enrollment period is gonna be one hell of a mess," says Gaba, "that's for sure". HHS says it will concentrate its meager ad spending on "digital media, email and text messages," which it says "have proven the most effective in reaching existing and new enrollees". That's a dubious claim.
