The apartments were little clusters of dark rooms, where a dozen human beings cringed around a meagre spark of fire, eyeing the two decrepit beds, which they must occupy by turn.
To eat, they cook meagre rations on open fires.
That lit a fire under Kyrgios, who pleaded to the meagre smattering of fans for support.
Coal rations were meagre and they huddled in overcoats in front of a tiny fire in their Croydon lodgings, while ice sheeted the insides of the windows.
Facebook, which paid a meagre £4,327 in corporation tax in 2014, is among the companies under fire.
Depression and alcoholism followed, and at 37, Keaton was fired by MGM, only to be rehired on a meagre salary to devise gags for the Marx Brothers and Abbott and Costello – stars indifferent to anything in their films beyond their own performance.
Two days later, as temperatures dropped to –2°C, around 2,000 residents in a decrepit city-centre tenement block were thrown out onto the street, with what meagre belongings they could salvage, after the Johannesburg council deemed their building to be a fire risk.
Because of Bangladesh's meagre batting performance, the Australian innings began before lunch and opener Adam Gilchrist scored a typically quick-fire 18 before he was caught behind from Mortaza.
He gets fired at from the ground, and is lauded for what he delivers, but the rewards are meagre, and his wife, Lucy Sarah Wrightt), is expecting a child, so how to pump up his pay?
Compensation has been meagre.
