Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon: "He's got no class." Franklin Roosevelt had class. Warren Harding did not. One of the maladies of the Carter Administration these days seems to be lack of class. Class is not always necessary for effective leadership; Lyndon Johnson sometimes demonstrated this. But if there is a dearth of achievement or other excitement, then a lack of class can be troublesome. The Carter Administration is drifting toward a description favored by the late Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, who used to say of the buffoons who brought us Watergate, "Class, they...
...play themselves out. In addition, a peculiar French individualism, a distaste for resolving conflicts on a face-to-face basis, and the desire to turn to a higher authority to arbitrate disputes have also been inherited from the past. This French form of authority--which can also explain the dearth of intermediary associations between the individual and the state--has created its own built-in problems. The state is often isolated from the French citizens and has no conception of just how serious social divisions in the country are or how to go about solving them. As a result, French...
First, the statement attributed to me suggesting a dearth of talented minority students is a complete misrepresentation. My point was simply this: unless one lives in Alan Dershowitz's world, it must be patently obvious, for all the well documented sociological and economic reasons, that the minority pool of applicants for highly competitive colleges will be a relatively smaller one than the comparable majority pool. No amount of wishful thinking can alter the effects of the pervasive disadvantages which minority students face at all levels of their education. While there is considerable room to improve the efficacy of identifying...
...relating specific issues and ideas to universal concepts, Wald intellectually transcends the boundary between science and politics. He juxtaposes democracy with natural selection and judges scientific work on its moral and political implications. Noting the dearth of scientist-activists, he says without apology, "The thing that gets me into those political issues is science. You cannot study nature as it goes down the drain...
...most other major economies remain plagued by inflation, stagnation, a dearth of investment capital and monetary imbalances caused largely by momentous outflows of funds to member states of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to cover fuel bills. A new index of "composite economic performance" compiled by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research, combining such measures as gross national income, output, sales and employment, shows that the summit seven as a group have largely regained their pre-recession heights of economic activity (see chart following page). But the progress is erratic. Except for the U.S., only Italy has surpassed...