Word: dearth
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...though the department might lack the balance it desires between male and female scholars, it certainly does not have a dearth of talent...
...School tenure process is, some say, the major battlefield of the political split. And with the dearth of appointments of professors from other law schools in the past five years, attention has focused on the junior faculty...
...Sheridan's School for Scandal, the prologue clucks hypocritically about rumormongering: "Caus'd by a dearth of scandal, should the vapours/ Distress our fair ones -- let 'em read the papers." That advice is still being followed at supermarket check-out counters. In Jane Austen's Persuasion, a shut-in hears neighborhood news: "Call it gossip if you will; but when nurse Rooke has half an hour's leisure to bestow on me, she is sure to have something to relate that is entertaining and profitable, something that makes one know one's species better." What the invalid learns is that...
...lack of competition in the lightweight division is a result of a dearth of funding and enthusiasm for lightweight programs at Eastern colleges Coach K C Dietz says the most difficult part of the season is finding races...
Recently a school of social historians have focused scholarly attentions more closely on the period. In doing so, they have begun to reveal a time of harsh penal codes that permitted judges to flaunt the death penalty, a dearth of law enforcement, incipient industrial revolution, violent town-wide football matches, bear baiting, turnpike rioting, abject urban poverty, burgeoning trade, and busting shops...