pittances

Have we no honor, no sense of duty, beyond the short-term pittances or self-serving deals with piddling pay-offs?

Michael Henry Adams: The Art of the Steal: Betraying Dr. Albert Barnes and Future Generations 2010

SO excuse the rest of us for seeing our pittances wittled away by Wall Street (now there is a place for a dirty bomb).

Think Progress » Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’ 2010

It cannot be that the Tory-clique 'government' has no sight of the catastrophes it is setting in motion, so a question is what precise condition for Britain is in their mind ...... some kind of science fiction feudal right wing utopia with a cowed de-educated servile mass on subsistence living kept in place by fear of losing their positions and pittances.

Cameron's cuts: There are alternatives | Editorial 2011

But we call them ‘welfare queens’ [we all know the stereotype] and require them to humiliate themselves for pittances compared to the cash doled out to farmers and ranchers!

Matthew Yglesias » Soda Lobbying 2010

And, ironically in light of this post, it looks like the banks have “gorged” on our “pittances”.

Oh Dear! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

They take the pittances offered by defendants or their insurers and move on.

Charles M. Silver: A New Model for Mass Torts? Charles M. Silver 2010

We - neither the creators, audiences, or their representatives - don't make a stink when aggregators get rich, and the content creators live on mere pittances.

Ted Hope: 38 Ways the Film Industry Is Failing Today 2010

We - neither the creators, audiences, or their representatives - don't make a stink when aggregators get rich, and the content creators live on mere pittances.

Ted Hope: 38 Ways the Film Industry Is Failing Today Ted Hope 2010

Unprecedented numbers of the very wealthy have come forward all over this country and overseas to reject their pittances of Social security payments, some amounting into the six figures.

McCain Gives Up Disability Payments 2009

They take over half of the money you spend on every single DVD and CD and tape and record and give pittances to the people who are responsible for the creative processes, the people who are the entire reason why you are buying that media.

Fox and Universal Pull Cheap DVD Rentals From Redbox | /Film 2009