1.   No landless peasants or laid-off workers are using their meager savings to buy sophisticated guns and enter into a career of crime.

2.   Families of modest means would see a large portion of their meager savings spent on administrative fees of fund managers.

3.   He and his wife and their newborn son returned to their home village and exhausted their meager savings before Sajid was finally rehired.

4.   How many trips to the dentist will get put off because would-be patients lost their meager savings?

5.   Soon after, Spivey relocated to Costa Rica, where he could live on meager savings in his cherished surroundings.

6.   To survive, Ngwijabanzi said, he has been using his meager savings to buy food.

7.   With his meager savings he purchases a van and becomes a furniture mover.

8.   With smaller pensions, less government help and relatively meager savings, boomers will have little choice but to keep learning and earning.

9.   At the site Monday, many of the workers, who have been subsisting largely on handouts and their meager savings, said they regretted coming.

10.   But many families dipped in meager savings, sold gold jewelry -- the dowry of Palestinian women -- or borrowed money to make sure children had enough to eat.