Consumer experts say the narrow range of players means uniformly poor customer service: punitive fees on unauthorised overdrafts, puny returns on Isas, inflexibly packaged accounts and a lemming-like rush to mis-sell payment protection insurance.
As hot tech funds sucked the air out of everything else, Ameristock that year turned in a puny 3% return.
The process has been time-consuming and expensive.All the while, puny investment returns have been little help.
Hingis is sure to remember the puny shot she returned to Williams's backhand for a down-the-line winner.
They have reached out to new customers with new gadgets: Nintendo's Wii console showed that games with cross-generational appeal can make money faster than a virtual Rafael Nadal returns your puny serve.
Allow us to make minor changes in the ABM treaty, enabling us to put up a puny defense, was the Clinton idea; in return, we will reduce our missile force in the Start III treaty all the way down to the level the Russian military can afford.
Returns on household financial assets are puny, as chart 2 shows.
But his mother persuaded him that his "puny efforts" would count for nothing when all the English journalists returned from the war.
In essence, he will affirm China's sovereignty over Tibet, but in return will push for a degree of autonomy for Tibet that is, admittedly, puny by the standards of what he has spent his life fighting for, but perhaps substantial in comparison with what Tibetans have now.
