Word: dearth
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...growing dearth of individual physicians in the core city has caused most low-income people to depend on hospitals for their health care. In addition, the continually rising cost of acute in-patient care (this is particularly true of a teaching hospital) and the impossibility of being admitted to an in-patient bed without recommendation of a physician, have accentuated the importance of ambulatory care facilities...
Shriver Moving. Such is the vacuum of Democratic leadership that speculation persists that New York's Republican Mayor John Lindsay may turn Democrat (see box, page 13). At lower levels, there is also a dearth of attractive Democratic candidates in some key states. Sargent Shriver, long rumored ready to resign his ambassadorship in Paris to run for Governor of Maryland, is now considering moving to New York to seek the Senate seat once held by his brother-in-law Robert Kennedy, and currently occupied by Republican Charles Goodell...
Lesotho has some diamonds, but never enough to bolster a viable economy; abundant water, but a dearth of arable land. Sixty thousand Basuto men are driven to South Africa every year to work on the mines and farms, and their earnings there constitute the country's main source of income...
Although it had to be moved to Interville Mountain-a "rinky-dink" place in McCollom's opinion-from Loon Mountain because of a dearth of snow. 85 "A" rated slalom men made the competition fierce...
More recently, 6-ft. 5½-in. Bill Doerner, after writing the Dec. 12 cover story on Ralph Nader, said that Nader should do something about the dearth of clothes for the tall. Within days, Doerner was besieged by manufacturers eager to go to any lengths...