Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recently a school of social historians have focused scholarly attentions more closely on the period. In doing so, they have begun to reveal a time of harsh penal codes that permitted judges to flaunt the death penalty, a dearth of law enforcement, incipient industrial revolution, violent town-wide football matches, bear baiting, turnpike rioting, abject urban poverty, burgeoning trade, and busting shops...
...There is a dearth of performing opportunities in the Boston area," says Hellmold. "I am bridging the professional and amateur worlds, so I still do things for free like this. But any role I accept, as this one," must be dramatically challenging for me," sl adds...
...have called America's last bastion of middle-class entrepreneurship. The budget would end the SBA's general lending program, at a saving of $1.5 billion. Although thousands of fledgling businessmen have taken advantage of the SBA's $4 billion-a-year loan-guarantee program, there is a surprising dearth of support for it among small, independent businesses. The National Federation of Independent Business found in a survey of its 500,000 members that roughly two-thirds would not be at all perturbed by the shuttering of the SBA. What does disturb a legion of briefcase-toting executives, though...
...have to provide extra housing at gunpoint. Those who could afford to pay market rates would then be forced to do so and residential builders would meet the demand. But now, with the present policy, middle-class tenants take up space low income families would have. With a dearth in housing money coming from Washington collers and builders claiming that low income housing is not profitable, nothing is getting built...
While most American universities are suffering from a dearth of funds, federal support for university research over the past decade has fallen especially short of the demand. Even though Harvard is in no sense suffering from a lack of money, it still has trouble finding enough to keep its research programs running smoothly...