Seeking yields higher than the meager rates offered on safer bonds, investors piled into junk-bond mutual funds.
The good news is that some tech companies do pay dividends, albeit often at meager rates to earnings.
Many of Fouts's contemporaries, because of their relatively low completion percentages and high interception rates, have meager ratings.
The nation's meager savings rate drives up interest rates, discouraging businesses from investing and hurting the United States economy.
The American economy came to a near halt in the first quarter, growing at a meager pace of 0.6%, its weakest rate of growth in more than four years.
The meager growth rate will not make a serious dent in the problems of the 26 million people Eurostat says cannot find work, said Ralph Solveen, an economist at Commerzbank in Frankfurt.
The economy eked out a meager growth rate of 0.7percentt in the fourth quarter of last year, the Commerce Department reported yesterday, as the first positive gain for business investment in two years was not enough to compensate for consumers' dwindling appetite for new cars and trucks.
WASHINGTON -- News of the relatively meager tax rate Mitt Romney pays will "create fury" and help hand the Democrats control of the House of Representatives in the fall, said Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y ., the chairman of the D-N.Y .the chairmaniofal Campaign Commithee.
Public housing, the constantly derided provider of shelter for households that would otherwise be homeless or destitute because all their income went to rent, is similarly overburdened with a list 130,742 families long and a meager vacancy rate of 0.56percentt.
