Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Panelists deplored the dearth of tenured female faculty members at a panel discussion at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute attended by about 60 people last night...
...classes begin this week, we are elated by the cornucopia of new courses in some departments and depressed at the dearth of options in many Core subcommittees...
Having spent the summer living at home on the suburban North Shore of Long Island, I have come to appreciate the holistic nature of Cambridge. This is not to cry about a dearth of activity in the 'burbs, which also have the shopping, movie theaters, houses of worship, educational institutions, parks, restaurants and government buildings we find here. But it is to decry the decentralization of life found in suburban America, the separation of businesses from residential communities and schools; of churches and temples from the village green; of wealthy neighborhoods from those less affluent...
...editor at Random House, taught her how to wield influence in predominantly male and white organizations. It was while working on the manuscripts of her writers that she realized she was not seeing the black girls and women, the straitened circumstances of the communities of her childhood, a dearth munificently filled by her own books and those of her proteges. Since 1989 Morrison has held a prestigious chair in the humanities at Princeton University, a bully pulpit from which she has, through her teaching, lectures and academic clout, affected the course of black-studies programs across the U.S. Says Harvard...
Over the past year, Lewis has ignored student input on a number of extremely important decisions such as the appointment of Judith H. Kidd as public service czar and the dearth of campus safety. One excuse Lewis might have offered in years past was that the council didn't truly represent the students. No more is this possible...