Word: scant
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...years the more moderate citizens of Berkeley, Calif., urged the town's sizable radical element to drop the politics of confrontation and try to work within the system. With a well-organized campaign, the radicals did just that. By the scant margin of 56 votes, Berkeley last week elected its first black mayor: Warren Widener, 33, a suave former city council member and protégé of radical Black Congressman Ronald Dellums. The insurgents also gained three of four available seats on the city council, bringing it to an even 4-4 split between leftists and moderates...
Yamashita was executed?perhaps for the sake of a good principle (command responsibility) but surely with scant regard for the evidence. Is his fate, as many now suggest, a precedent for prosecuting American
TIME'S survey, carried out with the help of Public Opinion Research of Israel Ltd., indicates that there is scant public pressure on the coalition government of Premier Golda Meir to soften any policy-or, for that matter, to harden it. Of the Jewish Israelis questioned, 85% feel that the government is doing all it should to negotiate a peace treaty. They also give stunning support to the government position that the occupied territories of East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Sharm el Sheikh should be retained by Israel in any settlement (see map). Only 7% of the Israelis...
...stock options. As a concession to labor, Nixon rescinded his mid-February suspension of the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires that local "prevailing wages" be paid on all federally aided construction. The suspension enraged the nation's 3,500,000 hardhats, while contractors complained that it would have scant effect on this year's wage contracts...
...Bryce Hospital is little more than an almshouse for many of its patients. All but 5% of the hospital's 4,800 patients are confined there involuntarily through civil court orders; almost half are geriatrics cases or mental retardees who receive only custodial care. The rest get scant medical treatment. Bryce is so backward that it does not even qualify for federal Medicare funds. The state spends only $6.80 a day on each patient, the second lowest (after Mississippi) such rate in the nation...