Word: dearth
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...Paulo's Avenida Anhangabaú, has a distinctive look. Almost all Latin American architects use combinations of louvers, grills, projecting concrete slabs and movable screens to control the dazzling sunshine; they share a lavish liking for color, usually dramatically set off against sparkling white. There is a dearth of structural steel and timber, so the designers have almost universally turned to reinforced concrete. It is a building medium that can easily become clumsy and heavy, but the Latin Americans have seized on its highly plastic quality to fashion shell-like vaulting, bold cantilevers, curving façades that give high sculptural qualities...
...poor turnout does not stem from poor publicity. Certain bad features of the Act itself account for the dearth of applicants. Although the volunteers may defer their term of active service temporarily, they must begin it before they are 21 years old. They must also serve 71/2 years in the ready reserve, including 48 weekly two-hour sessions and a two-week training period per year...
...opener with Amherst, the varsity overcame a first half deficit; this time the margin was three points. The home team actually led by ten points at the end of 13 minutes, but a Crimson scoring dearth in the final seven minutes accounted for the Huskies' 32-29 half-time margin...
...shared by many another Indian, including even some of Nehru's ministers. The Second Five-Year Plan is under a heavy barrage of fire. Mahalanobis, critics found, had underestimated the cost of needed new railroad mileage by a whopping $1.4 billion. Industries Minister Krishnamachari, bemoaning the dearth of skills in India's vast untrained manpower pool, despaired of attaining the plan's steel production goals. "Finding personnel for the new steel plants," he said, "looks like a superhuman task...
...addition to the need for more teachers, Pusey warned that colleges are also threatened financially. "They need more money," he asserted, "than seems to be immediately forthcoming. Having lived through several periods of dearth, they are now about to be swamped by more students than they can handle...