Word: scant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earned" immunity from prosecution for Viet Nam draft resisters (it could be earned by service in the armed forces or in other public-service employment). Talk about legal ethics pervaded the convention. But little was done. On the other major leadership concern-prepaid group legal services-there was also scant progress. (If and when the A.B.A. sets advisory guidelines, such insurance programs will help give the middle class greater access to legal advice...
This plot seems more aptly suited for comedy and is inadequate to convey any political messages Wertmuller intended. Her material is simple and scant, for the dim-witted peasant has no ideological beliefs to articulate and a thick blanket of fear stifles his emotions. Except for one drunken outburst and a wild frenzy at the end, his eyes are expressionless, with pupils the size of pinpoints...
With this kind of background, Rodino failed to inspire the confidence of the House's Democratic leaders when impeachment became a possibility a year ago, a scant seven months after he had become Judiciary chairman. Speaker Carl Albert pointedly suggested to Rodino that, instead of giving the matter to the Judiciary Committee, the House should perhaps set up a special select body to conduct the inquiry. Rodino flatly refused to go along, and Albert gave way. (Later, the Speaker was to bless that decision: if a special committee had been set up, the Republicans could have stacked their membership...
...When I was administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, I saw Congress pass bills on clean air and clean water when they knew?absolutely knew?that the goals couldn't be fulfilled." Both Houses are poorly led. The machinery is creaky, the resources scant, and efforts at effective reform seem once again to have been smothered...
...thin, wasted face and the appearance of a man twice his age. A welfare recipient, he spends his days wandering down Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, Calif., with a bottle of cheap wine or a marijuana cigarette in his hand. Tom Finley, 21, also a Telegraph Avenue regular, earns a scant $40 a month, mostly by selling his blood. Annie Peters, 17, lives off the refuse in Berkeley garbage cans and occasionally peddles dope. Though their names have been changed, their stories are very real and typify the plight of what two social scientists at the University of California in Berkeley...