Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably not now present," reports TIME National Political Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett. "In Congress, there is too much dissension within each House and within each party. In the White House, there is serious question whether Reagan fully understands what is involved. There is also a dearth of both acumen and independent thinking around him. If this analysis is correct, there is good reason to believe that Gramm-Rudman will turn out to be either a means of ravaging many Government functions, including quite legitimate ones, or a malign illusion that merely defers the real day of judgment on the deficit...
...though the department might lack the balance it desires between male and female scholars, it certainly does not have a dearth of talent...
...School tenure process is, some say, the major battlefield of the political split. And with the dearth of appointments of professors from other law schools in the past five years, attention has focused on the junior faculty...
...Sheridan's School for Scandal, the prologue clucks hypocritically about rumormongering: "Caus'd by a dearth of scandal, should the vapours/ Distress our fair ones -- let 'em read the papers." That advice is still being followed at supermarket check-out counters. In Jane Austen's Persuasion, a shut-in hears neighborhood news: "Call it gossip if you will; but when nurse Rooke has half an hour's leisure to bestow on me, she is sure to have something to relate that is entertaining and profitable, something that makes one know one's species better." What the invalid learns is that...
...lack of competition in the lightweight division is a result of a dearth of funding and enthusiasm for lightweight programs at Eastern colleges Coach K C Dietz says the most difficult part of the season is finding races...