Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strange References. To some Western officials, the dearth of diatribe was in itself a hopeful sign. They noted that Moscow and Cairo did not come right out and reject the Rogers proposals, which include a 90-day ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories and Arab acceptance of Israel's right to exist within recognized borders. There were rumors, in fact, that the Soviets had stressed the importance of a political solution, and had actually prevailed on Nasser to accept the essence of the Rogers proposals-a ceasefire and negotiations. The Israelis, however, saw no evidence that Nasser had experienced...
Though South Viet Nam's National Assembly has occupied Saigon's neo-Romanesque Opera House for more than two years, the old building has not suffered from a dearth of drama. Most recently it has been the principal site of President Nguyen Van Thieu's bareknuckle campaign to silence his opposition in the Assembly. Last week the performance reached a climax...
...growing dearth of individual physicians in the core city has caused most low-income people to depend on hospitals for their health care. In addition, the continually rising cost of acute in-patient care (this is particularly true of a teaching hospital) and the impossibility of being admitted to an in-patient bed without recommendation of a physician, have accentuated the importance of ambulatory care facilities...
Shriver Moving. Such is the vacuum of Democratic leadership that speculation persists that New York's Republican Mayor John Lindsay may turn Democrat (see box, page 13). At lower levels, there is also a dearth of attractive Democratic candidates in some key states. Sargent Shriver, long rumored ready to resign his ambassadorship in Paris to run for Governor of Maryland, is now considering moving to New York to seek the Senate seat once held by his brother-in-law Robert Kennedy, and currently occupied by Republican Charles Goodell...
Lesotho has some diamonds, but never enough to bolster a viable economy; abundant water, but a dearth of arable land. Sixty thousand Basuto men are driven to South Africa every year to work on the mines and farms, and their earnings there constitute the country's main source of income...