The payoff for the sacrifice of journalistic independence, he notes, is "meager".
Thus, the U.S.D.A. spends millions a year marketing American cheese to the public — and a more meager sum, Moss dryly notes, on its nutrition department's reports urging folks to cut back on fatty foods.
After all, he notes, for his meager buyout price of $13 million he got a company with $400 million in annual sales, a national brand, 5 million customers and more than $100 million in high-tech innards.
Some reported new born baby Apgar score and weight, but most often the information on the newborn infant was meager and the condition of baby/child noted as normal, "healthy baby," or nothing abnormal.
My analytic notes on the game are meager, merely that Bill Belichick, by reputation a guy who thinks these things through, did not, in fact, seem to have thought this one through particularly well; i.e., the Patriots did not seem particularly well prepared to stop Eli from doing what he does well.
It also noted competing priorities for "the meager resources at the state's disposal".
He doesn't make return forecasts, but he notes that yield spreads over Treasuries are already meager by historical standards and thus unlikely to go lower.
Mr. Hoffman's announcement was reported on Monday night by news media including Forbes, which noted that Mr. Keirnan's campaign had raised a meager $5,000 before the post.
On a happier side of the scale voters gave a somewhat puzzling boost to "The Ides of March, George Clooney's political drama; it had meager ticket sales and has so far been of minor note on the awards trail, but it walked away with four Globe nominations.
Analysts have noted that the benefits of the merger have been meager.
As The Washington Post's Ezra Klein noted after the speech, a vote for the president's meager agenda is effectively a vote for a kind of "return to normalcy" after the intense perturbations of the last four years.
