Word: dearth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard continues to seek a leading role inattracting minority students and star professors,Associate Vice President James S. Hoyte '65, whois black and who oversees Affirmative action atthe University, says the dearth of minorityathletic leaders becomes all the more noticeable...
...previous years, students struggling to fulfill their requirements before graduation complained as the dearth of Cores, particularly in Moral Reasoning, resulted in over-crowded classes and inflexible schedules...
Kaus remembers that his editor Charles Peters took a big risk in hiring him, given his dearth of journalistic training...
...Certainly, all old institutions are concerned about keeping up a certain image and, more meaningfully, perpetuating their values and traditions. And the student activist movements of the '60s left us with a legacy of questioning University policies, ranging from Harvard's investments in apartheid-era South Africa to the dearth of tenured women and people of color in the ranks of the Faculty...
...dearth of community broadcasting has spurred a sudden proliferation of microbroadcasters, renegade radio buffs who mount their own low-wattage stations, flouting FCC licensing rules. Between 500 and 1,000 are estimated to be operating nationwide, up from a handful five years ago. Hence, the rebels on the Las Vegas Convention Center sidewalk, whose own three-day counterconvention, dubbed "Fear and Transmitting," took place in a rundown Unitarian Fellowship hall across town and was catered by Food Not Bombs, a group that collects unused groceries from supermarkets and restaurants to be served to the homeless. Workshops on legal defenses against...