| Since then Northwest has posted record profits and awarded huge pay increases to top executives, while offering a pittance to workers. |
| With a pittance of a salary, how could they be enthused to become proactive people? |
| Her husband, after incurring losses trying to run a business, is now employed in a private firm for a pittance. |
| Hotels are a pittance, the national park is free, and there's mini-golf, ice cream cones and bowling to boot. |
| Yet we pay these workers a pittance for work that is often physically and mentally demanding in the extreme. |
| So I'll have at least a tiny pittance of spending money for a few days, before it runs out again. |
