Word: dearth
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Extensive ethnic studies programs at other schools upset student advocates of ethnic studies at Harvard, who see a dearth of this sort of programming in the College's curriculum...
Harvard's student-run Safety Walk program may be discontinued next week because of insufficient funding and a dearth of volunteers, its director said yesterday...
...British Prime Minister John Major argued vehemently against arming the embattled Bosnians. Major, who, save for the dearth of a bowler hat and umbrella is a worthy successor to the exalted post of Neville Chamberlain, said that arming the Bosnians would prolong the conflict. He is absolutely right. Had the U.S. not "prolonged the conflict" by arming the British in World War II, Herr Major would now be celebrating Oktoberfest in Trafalgar Square as we entered year 63 of the thousand-year Reich. We must never forget...
Priests are inarguably in short supply now--by some estimates there are 2,000 parishes (out of a U.S. total of 19,723) without a resident priest--and the dearth, barring a miracle, will get worse. The number of U.S. Catholics has grown 15% over the past 10 years and stands at just over 60 million. Contributing to this number is the massive immigration of predominantly Catholic Hispanics. Today roughly one-third of the American Catholic population is Hispanic, and that portion will continue to grow. Some Los Angeles parishes in or near Hispanic sections must now schedule...
That much modern psychopathology grows out of the dynamics of economic freedom suggests a dearth of miracle cures; Utopian alternatives to captialism have a history of not working out. Even the more modest reforms that are imaginable--reforms that somewhat blunt modernization's antisocial effects--will hardly be easy or cheap. Workplace-based day care costs money. Ample and inviting public parks cost money. And it costs money to create good public schools--which by diverting enrollment from private schools offer the large communal virtue of making a child's neighborhood peers and schoolyard friends one and the same. Yikes...