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When he was writing his Phenomenology of Spirit, despite his very meager income at the time, he was ordering shipments of Médoc and Pontak (Haut-Brion).
A 1994 survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international association of market economies, found "remarkably meager support for the hypothesis that such programs are effective."
There's a different, but no less intense, pleasure to be derived from these miracles worked up from the meager materials of paper and chalk.
But on Monday, Lott was, in the NYT 's words, "recalibrating" his views by now blaming Starr's meager results on the White House.
Discovering the bright side of the hearing for the Republicans was Paul Gigot (PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer), who snooted out these meager truffles: By calling Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh into the station for questioning, Burton kept alive the controversy over Reno's decision not to appoint an independent counsel.