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LAST WEEK Paltry Growth: Gross domestic product, a broad measure of economic activity, rose at an annualized seasonally adjusted rate of 1.3% in the second quarter.
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Paltry tokens like the Dream Act -- again, this shouldn't be presented as a huge favor to immigrants who have only known the U.S. as a home, and whose only crime was to have been brought over by their parents at a young age -- will not compensate for building ruthless exclusion into the system.
Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes 2010
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Fellow UVa-er (Wahoo is surely the proper term) Seth Goldin is reporting on the trial over a The Paltry Press.
Archive 2008-08-02 Nicole 2008
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Paltry though they were, they were what I had to hold on to.
The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010
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Paltry tokens like the Dream Act -- again, this shouldn't be presented as a huge favor to immigrants who have only known the U.S. as a home, and whose only crime was to have been brought over by their parents at a young age -- will not compensate for building ruthless exclusion into the system.
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Paltry tokens like the Dream Act -- again, this shouldn't be presented as a huge favor to immigrants who have only known the U.S. as a home, and whose only crime was to have been brought over by their parents at a young age -- will not compensate for building ruthless exclusion into the system.
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Paltry pieces of power when compared to the glories of my kind.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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Paltry pieces of power when compared to the glories of my kind.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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Promoted to Headline (H2) on 1/29/09: Fighting Catastrophic Climate Change: Maryland's Paltry Proposal yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Fighting Catastrophic Climate Change: Maryland\'s Paltry Proposal'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Without adequate action to reverse catastrophic climate change, we face devastation from the resulting severe storms, rising sea levels, insect infestation, disease, flooding, drought, fire, temperature and weather extremes of all sorts.
Fighting Catastrophic Climate Change: Maryland's Paltry Proposal 2009
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So in this case “Paltry Poetry” is a bit of commentary on what many people actually think about the art of writing verse.
PALTRY POULTRY POETRY: A Collection of Unprose From the Mind of a Senile Teen 2009
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