Word: dearth
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Adler's writing almost makes the book worth-while despite the dearth of plot. The lean prose, pared down to the minimum, has an almost lyrical simpleness. She fills the pages with repetitions and refrains giving the novel its one redeeming feature, its rhythm...
Created as an alternative to what used to be the exclusive NCAA tourney, the NIT has lost some of its past prestige as the older NCAA event has expanded. Its 53 invitations this year will be the most ever, after that has created a dearth of top teams from which the NIT can choose...
Interest in Latin America swelled suddenly after the Cuban revolution, says Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures Juan Marichal. But because academics had relatively ignored the region previously, there was a dearth of qualified scholars, and Harvard was unwilling to rush into the field by appointing poorly qualified people, professors say. Only now are enough topflight people emerging to make beefing up the faculty possible, they explain...
...RESULTS of a comprehensive College survey on undergraduate instruction are in, and they show that by and large students are not dissatisfied with the size of their courses. This has to be welcome news for the administration, long plagued by the popular opinion that students here suffer from a dearth of intimate instruction by senior faculty members. The College will now be able to revamp its admissions pamphlets and use the new data to try to dispell this unflattering image of being uncaring of students As far as the survey indicates, students think...
...spite of the relative dearth of Harvard points, some Crimson thinclads ensured that their opponents had to fight the Crimson all the way to the wire...