Its paltry rating is thanks, in part, to its unenviable Friday night time slot opposite Fox's equally quirky "Fringe," because all genre shows are inevitably relegated to the so-called end-of-week "Death Slot" when networks grow bored of trying to pair them with incompatible time slot companions (see also: "Chuck and Grimmmm" on NBC).
One particularly pissed off Yelper gave the museum a one-star review, the same paltry rating he bestowed upon a Connecticut Cheesecake Factory and the Art Lounge at Newark airport, commenting, "This POS institution thinks its funny to offer our president a toilet.
The bad news is that some big-name banks pay paltry rates.
Tullow, together with China's CNOOC and Total of France, will start pumping it next year, initially at a paltry rate of 5,000 barrels a day (b/d).
"We will lose something essential about the gestalt" of the city, said the Mayor's deputy, if the paltry rate of construction goes on any longer.
Although the notion is aimed at banks to encourage them to lend more, it could see the paltry rates on savings accounts drop even further.
Maike Currie, associate investment director at Fidelity Personal Investing, said that while removing the income tax on interest earned on cash "makes for a great headline", it would do little for cash savers who had to contend with paltry rates.
WORLD economic growth is faltering, the International Monetary Fund said this week, as it forecast that most of the large developed economies would either shrink this year or grow at paltry rates of 2 percent or less.
Add to it paltry rates of economic growth, widespread poverty and income inequality, vast urban slums and a police force considered brutal and despised by the poor, and it is little surprise that the island nation's homicide rate is always among the handful of the world's highest.
Current accounts were a bigger source of income than mortgage lending (19%), credit cards (13%) and savings accounts (17%).For consumers, the biggest cost arises from the paltry rates of interest that banks pay on balances held in current accounts, usually less than 0.5%, which compares with rates of 5% or 6% now available on savings accounts.
Unlike its predecessor, the pensioner bond, which allowed people to save up to £10,000 at up to 4% for three years, this is £3,000 at a likely 2.2%... Certainly any account that beats the paltry rates of interest that we have currently is to be welcomed, but I don't see many people whooping".
