Two hitters with meager credentials starting the process of turning it around for their teams.
His Hall of Fame vote totals, meager to start with, dropped to 19.8 percent (115 votes), several percentage points below what he tallied in four previous votes.
In several interviews, victims, a mix of poor laborers and some middle-class professionals, said they were reeling, unable to make mortgage and car payments and forced to start rebuilding meager savings from scratch.
At the rally, their union leaders called Mr. Bloomberg uncaring and said the officers could not afford to raise their families on meager salaries that start at $31,305.
And automakers are lobbying for a backloaded plan, with the biggest cuts at the end and meager reductions at the start.
AFTER those forays into the book world, I still needed to supplement my income for a few years before my meager Social Security payments started arriving.
Despite starting with meager equipment and finances, he earned the 1986 NASCAR Rookie of the Year award over drivers racing for well-funded teams.
For the Yankees, their meager offensive showing wasted another start by their ace, C. C. Sabathia, who allowed a run in five and two-thirds innings, and accentuated the slumps by two-thirds of their order.
My share of the rent was $600, which seemed cheap when we signed the lease and then less cheap once my meager paychecks from the Gap started rolling in.
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.
