Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan is well-intentioned, and is an innovative effort to combat the dearth of minority faculty here. But it is quite likely that the program would do more harm than good...
...Institute has also received funding from the Fogarty Institute of the National Institute of Health to support a fellowship fund which will bring AIDS researchers to Harvard from Africa and East Asia. This grant supports efforts by the new AIDS organization to relieve the dearth of health care workers qualified to treat AIDS patients, Hiatt says...
...reason the digits have been hopping erratically is the interplay between the lack of deep commitment to either candidate and the combatants' response to that dearth. The Republicans set a pattern of pit-bull negativism earlier in the cycle than usual, and the Democrats have felt compelled to respond. When voters are relatively clear about their convictions, negative attacks are unlikely to produce large swings. But with the public still hazy about what George Bush and Michael Dukakis are really for, each candidate hopes to paint a dark image of the other. That, in turn, discourages positive loyalty...
...Spanish-language TV stations (130 outlets broadcasting full or part time in Spanish), which have siphoned off a portion of the available audience. The Nielsen ratings, some charge, have long underestimated the Spanish-speaking audience, thus giving the networks less incentive to program for it. Equally problematic is the dearth of Hispanic writers and producers who have the experience or clout to get their projects made. "We're not on the inside, working, developing our craft," says Eduardo Cervantes, a vice president of current programs at Columbia Pictures Television and one of the few Hispanics in a top studio position...
...dearth of Hispanic and Chicano faculty members is especially distressing, Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez says, because Harvard has succeeded in attracting more Hispanic undergraduates in recent years. He says he is often asked to advise students studying Hispanic or Chicano issues, even though the subject is not in his field...