Word: dearth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...over again," Dahl says now, "I would include some students." He says without student views the report lacked important. Also, Dahl says he was disturbed by the dearth of alumni comment, which could only be remedied by an improvement in Yale's communications with its alumni...
...really fair to say that the dearth of women professors here is the result of a conscious act of villainy. Still, it's relatively easy to pin blame when you're talking about the academic level of sexism. It's when you get to the social level that things really begin to get sticky. Virtually everyone at Harvard is "conscious" about sexism or, if they aren't when they get here, they soon learn. A woman from a small Southern town who gets here freshman year and tells everyone she wants to be a housewife and mother soon discovers what...
This excitement doesn't come from witty titles like Dean-Askin's Bottcellis parody. The Dearth of Venus of Ta Kuang Chang's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mouna L a. Nor does it show up in Carlo G. Brogna's paating of a toilet with an accompanying roll of toiled paper tacked to the wall. Julia Allard's say of three mouths-obviously an assignment from a drawing class-is less striking than any of these but also more hosest. Because it's good--she's taken a simple exercise and brought life...
...present mess is particularly difficult precisely because of the recession's global scope. In the past, many European nations and Japan could stimulate their flagging economies by boosting exports. But because all the major economies are in decline at the same time, there is a marked dearth of buyers. Thus the rest of the industrial world can only fervently wish success for the moderately stimulative policies of Germany, Japan-and especially the U.S., by far the richest market...
...television interviews in part of Bantam Books' unremitting effort to sell the 12 million copies in the new American edition's first printing. Now available in 15 languages, it is the largest, longest, best-selling, best-known, most comprehensive general-interest record book in the world. Ross attributes the dearth of imitations to potential competitors' lack of initiative. "Doing this book was hard work, and most publishers are lazy," he explains...