Word: dearth
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...getting and, if there is any wealth to share, you can keep it in the family. Most everywhere else, the practice is a social stain. Yet for increasing numbers of Chinese, the issue isn't a matter of choice-but survival. China is facing an alarming dearth of young brides. Two decades of restrictive family-planning policies have resulted in a drastic gender imbalance-the country is missing 50 million girls who would have been born if not for sex-based abortions and female infanticide. Sons are valued far more than daughters in China because males maintain the family line...
Students involved in theater and dance often complain that they lack adequate space to practice and perform due to a dearth of theaters and the fact that the Loeb Mainstage is used by professionals for most of the year...
...enough, but in my “foolishness” as I labor over a keyboard, I temporarily don’t have the ability to understand what this book was all about. Otherwise, it could be a lack of “cognitive ability” or a dearth of “rationality”—or maybe it is an overwhelming barrage of excessive jargon that prevents me from understanding exactly what the authors mean...
...just this week, Harvard failed to endorse the Coalition Against Sexual Violence’s attempt to gain federal funding to help redress the current dearth of resources available for sexual assault victims on campus. The grant would have funded a review of Harvard’s current sexual violence education and the implementation of suggested changes as well as sexual violence education for members of the Ad Board. Lewis has declared the Ad Board to be ill-equipped to handle sexual assault cases; how can it then be denied that an evaluation of its processes and the College?...
...blinded by Ruth’s towering home runs, the Sox brass have never truly understood that it is pitching that wins championships. Ruth’s offensive contribution to the Red Sox was surely important, but he was, first and foremost, a pitcher. And it is a dearth of quality pitching that has hurt the team in recent years...