1.   Clearly, Iraq will soon be unable to provide even these meager rations.

2.   Falt said the meager rations given to Iraqis under the United Nations program were simply not enough.

3.   He husbanded his meager rations, conserved his energy during the day, and moved around at night, now and then activating his radio transmitter.

4.   His terrified wife says Roca is being kept in a cell without light, fed meager rations at irregular intervals, and refused access to his lawyer.

5.   Last month, the meager rations guaranteed to every citizen, which barely fulfilled two-thirds of internationally recognized minimal nutrition requirements, were cut in half.

6.   Most supplement their meager U.N. food rations with whatever they can earn outside the camps.

7.   Most are short, their growth stunted by meager rations during adolescence.

8.   Russian soldiers, who routinely ask Chechen civilians for food to augment their meager rations, are spread in long lines across the rich green meadows beneath these hills.

9.   Sometimes, despite meager rations, he used bits of corn bread to erase paper he had been given by other prisoners.

10.   The ex-POWs say they were fed meager rations of rice and water, were beaten often, worked long hours in subhuman conditions and slept in squalor.