The managers of the Ugandan exchange like to point out that, puny though it may be, it is growing steadily.
It clearly recaptures the day a puny Yale football manager made his point at Harvard Stadium and instantly became a legend at two great universities.
Above all, they say, their weapons, numbers and support are puny compared with ours.This misses the central point.
There, as at Glacier Point, you are reminded how puny Yosemite Valley is: 7 miles long and a mile wide, surrounded by nearly 1,200 more square miles of rugged high-country parkland.
Mexican officials point out that the funds involved are puny ($400m a year for three years) compared with the $9 billion they are spending each year.
Maybe the Israelites watched from a distorting vantage point that made Goliath look excessively big, David excessively puny.
No one has ever been able to do what was expected of Welles — to create a new radical theatre and to make one movie masterpiece after another — but Welles' "figurehead" publicity had snowballed to the point where all his actual and considerable achievements looked puny compared to what his destiny was supposed to be.
In addition, around 1,000 schools are allowed to select some or all of their intake on grounds of academic ability or religious affiliation.That's not a great deal simpler and the already puny administrative abilities of some local education authorities have been taxed to breaking point by the task.
He regards the proliferation of goals and recommendations in the report as hugely over-ambitious, as tending towards a kind of international central planning, and as placing far too great a strain on the puny resources of "global bureaucrats and dysfunctional administrations".Mr Easterly makes a further point, echoed by others this week.
As a result of the buying momentum, he points out that the S&P 500 now yields less than a puny 2.4% and trades at a lofty 26.3 times earnings.
"My feeling is, he's a very rare talent," Ms. Wilson said, pointing out that it's difficult for a designer to come back to his own puny label after freelancing at a luxury brand.
