As meager as this level of protection is, considerable sums are being spent on it–$1.5 billion last year by the Coast Guard, plus significant, and mostly uncounted, sums by shippers.
What's happening: Research has shown that just one night of meager sleep lowers levels of the appetite-suppressing hormone leptin and boosts levels of hunger-increasing ghrelin.
Health care had advanced enough in the early twentieth century that the first group health-insurance policy in the U.S. — one with a level of coverage that's meager by our standards — was started in 1929.
Furthermore, states generally offer HCBS through multiple, narrowly targeted programs, leading to a fragmented and sometimes impenetrable system that may provide generous services to some, while only offering meager or no services to others with the same level of need.
A rise in sea level of only a few feet would engulf the meager inhabitable ring of the island, leaving the coral boneyard of Topside all alone at sea, once again available to a million years of birds.
This doesn't apply to New York, but it does to many of the other cities above: Places that have been declining in population, and that have had meager income growth, tend to have lower levels of happiness.
All levels of government shed workers, and hiring by companies continued to slow, resulting in a meager 18,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs last month, the Labor Department reported on Friday.
Eighty percent of the population of Gaza now lives below the poverty line and UNRWA is encountering increasing levels of abject poverty where people basically do not have enough food, even with their meager food allocations, to live.
Defenders of Herbalife can point to the meager number of regulatory actions.
