RedEnvelope said on Jan . 9that net income would be a paltry $900,000 to $1.2 million during the third quarter ended in December -- a huge decline from the $4.3 million to $4.7 million the company forecast in October.
In these days of skimpy Russian budgets, foreign tours are what keep the theater thriving, and its artists and musicians alive: on state subsidies alone, their regular salaries would be a paltry 2,500 rubles, or about $80, a month.
Boston to DC would be a paltry three hours.Mr Florida notes that street-car lines and highways spurred development along them; this would do the same, making the dense areas denser and leaving the more sparsely populated centre of the country less vulnerable to sprawl and reckless development.
A marriage without lust would be a paltry thing indeed, wouldn't it?
That would be a paltry sum for a player today, when the average major league salary is almost $4 million, but such riches were unheard of 50 years ago.
Perhaps something could be done along these lines, but it would be a poor, paltry, truncated, trifling thing.
He assumed that if Sedley had left him anything in his will it would be an insultingly paltry sum, a single shilling, or a savage castigation for causing the death of his first wife, James's mother; he had always known why his father hated him.
On Tuesday, Mr O'Connell, with his characteristic energy, reviewed the Royal speech, denouncing that part of it relating to Ireland, and concluded by saying—"Will all this stop the people of Ireland? (Cries of 'No, no.') I know little of my countrymen if they would be arrested by such paltry depravity such miserable, snivelling policy as Ministers exhibited.
A far better use of aid would be to augment Puntland's paltry $18 million budget, which is almost exclusively derived from port taxes.
