Mr. Dager's income was meager last year, amounting to less than $20,000.
Scallop harvests were meager last year and almost nonexistent the year before that.
The market was looking for a better performance than the meager 1,000 jobs that employers added in December.
Brought back from a meager 5,000 in the 50's, the flamingo population there has grown to more than 30,000.
Ralph SmileyEven the most ardent devotees of Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell and Groucho Marx will find meager Christmas cheer in "Double Dynamite," yesterday's arrival at the Paramount.
B14 BUSINESS DAY C1-13 Jobs Report Disappointing Job growth was surprisingly meager last month, the Labor Department reported, in a sign that business executives have become worried that the economic damage from high energy prices might be growing.
But it also raised its estimate of the number of new jobs in December, to 16,000 from the meager 1,000 that briefly served as a symbol of a jobless recovery.
After spending two hours on Christmas Eve, 1915 staring out at No Man's Land with a machine gun, Empey and two mates "Curly" and "Happy" returned to their dugout to warm up and talk over plans for a meager Christmas dinner of the shared treats they had gathered.
Many of these barely-edited books, written in a colloquial style and the mishmash of Hindi and English known as Hinglish, are quickly outpacing sales numbers of Booker winners, selling hundreds of thousands of copies in a country where the benchmark for achieving best-seller status, until now, was a meager 5,000 copies.
Don't be fooled by the familiar dramatis personae: the regretful old man haunted by memories, the ghost of times past with the power to erase his bitter legacy, and the poor but loving family gathered in anticipation of a meager Christmas celebration.
