Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...salaries were never the central issue. The catch, obviously, was how few minority professors there were to enjoy the attractive wages. Bok indicates he understands the reason for the dearth of minority faculty members when he says that...
Harvard has only two endowed professorships in Jewish Studies now and because of this dearth many of the 30 to 40 students who apply to Harvard every year to study Jewish culture are turned away because of a lack of senior professors...
...anything is surprising about Wood it's the dearth of recognition she gets off and on the ice. Asked about Wood's singularity on a team of men, teammate Chuck Cook never went beyond an assessment of her skating ability except to say, "It's not a big issue. It didn't nother...
...with only the vaguest notions of what he will do and after a certain prescribed period of time (in the case of Letters to My Mother, one day), finishes. In that time a simple story-line emerges, sustained by the most elementary event-to-event, casual thinking. Ironically this dearth of complexity is the peculiar strength of his roman policier: the name Maigret itself connotes a kind of thinness, a stylistic baldness. Unlike the elegant Sherlock Holmes, Commissaire Maigret is a bourgeois hero, a symbol of the unpretentious common man; he uses no complicated forensics, no tricks of reason...
...difficult to blame only Harvard for the dearth of graduates who go out and dedicate their lives to eradicating social injustice, redistributing social benefits more equitably, and championing the cause of the "ordinary" citizen. Take, for example, a recent study by the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning. It indicates that almost the exact same numbers of students in any given class say at graduation that they will enter various occupations as when the class entered. So, while the Harvard educational process may influence individuals in a class, it does not appear to alter the eventual occupational distribution...