Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another) are a little ticked off at being picked on by the press as odd, for theirs is no more odd than a gathering of philatelists. They desire a sober and evenhanded report for once, and so, as far as this department is concerned, they shall have it. The dearth of seriousness in the lines that preceded these is regretfully noted, and the clerk is instructed to strike them from the record...
University officials emphatically stress the dearth of money-grubbing during the event...
...cars on the road had to dodge miguelitos, nail-studded objects intended to puncture tires. In the capital of Santiago and other cities, thousands of workers waited in vain for public buses and taxis that never came. Downtown shops in Santiago were closed, and there was such a dearth of traffic that some of the smog that envelops the city lifted, allowing peaks of the Andes to be seen to the east...
Officials say they cannot pinpoint a cause for sexual harassment, but most admit it is more common than the few reported cases would suggest. Honnet attributes the problem at least in part to the dearth of tenured women and, by extension, strong female presence at Harvard, where fewer than 25 out of 350 senior professors are women...
Much of Mr. Kurzman's article reflects a simple dearth of research. Suggesting that Radcliffe's primary event for its undergraduates was the Senior Soiree, "the stereotypical women's college event," merely illustrated the lack of contact that Mr. Kurzman has had with Radcliffe. Harvard and Radcliffe are both institutions that expect a certain amount of individual responsibility. Radcliffe does an extraordinary job of publicizing its resources through such publications as the Gonfalon, mailed free of charge to any undergraduate requesting...