The results were still meager, and this was reflected in my acceptance rate, which hovered around zero for many years.
Still, meager loan growth, the rising cost of servicing troubled mortgages and the effect of new financial rules have weighed on its results.
The fact that the economy was creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs a month in 1983 and 1984 makes today's situation, with job growth still meager, look even murkier.
In spite of a much improved economy, public funding of the University of California is still meager.
Despite the large number of studies about plant competition, our understanding of the genetic and molecular basis for competition is still meager.
This is partly because of its high prevalence and morbidity, coupled with the still meager use of intravenous thrombolysis, continuously fueling interest in neuroprotection and other therapies.
The decision to include the honey bee amongst the current organisms for complete genome sequencing, was, therefore, well founded, yet information on its transcriptome is still meager.
At that time, this helminth infestation had never been reported in dogs in Turkey, and information on the biologic features of the nematode was still meager, despite its wide distribution in Greece, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, and Switzerland and the increasing number of reported cases (7 ).
