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Harvard's policy toward minorities also came under attack this spring, as students in both the College and the Law School mobilized to protest the dearth of minority faculty. Students and professors agreed that minority faculty members are overburdened because they are so few in number...
...there a dearth of Black actors and musicians on campus? Or are there plenty of would-be Black performers who are languishing for lack of opportunities...
...seas of eager hands and exciting admiring crowds. Bush has apologized to his supporters for not being adroit at articulating his emotions, and Dukakis has campaigned on the premise that the voters are tired of charisma. But Bobby was able to spark excitement by articulating dreams. Given today's dearth of passion, it is no wonder that the young people who embraced politics in the '60s -- and whose faith in government was undermined by Viet Nam, assassinations and Watergate -- should remember Kennedy as a hero...
Prior to Gorbachev's ascension to power, Shmelyov said the Soviet economy had reached a "pre-crisis state" because it had seen no growth from 1977 to 1984. He attributed this economic paralysis to the government monopolies on production, a dearth of incentives for workers and the government's disinterest in encouraging technological innovation...
...beyond the obvious attempts to stamp their products with the imprimatur of high culture, the questions remains as to why these authors in particular are chosen. After all, there's no dearth of well-known dead writers. In the case of James, Rolls Royce no doubt was aware that the famed American anglophile would be the perfect author to endorse this symbol of British luxury to an American audience...