Word: scant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report of gunfire at a Brooklyn yacht club was shot in the right arm; he was the city's fourth officer to be sniped at in less than a week, and a nightlong hunt through the surrounding swamps failed to yield a suspect. Worst of all, within a scant three days, one Philadelphia policeman was shot dead pointblank and six others were wounded in a series of apparently unrelated incidents. A gunman, whom police described as black, walked into the guardhouse of a West Philadelphia park and pumped five bullets into Sergeant Frank VonColln, 43, as he sat quietly...
...paper plant fouls a town stream, a sport fisherman has scant chance of getting a court to halt the pollution. The judge is likely to rule that some government agency should do the suing -provided that it wants to. Even when a citizen is allowed to sue, the burden of proof is on him to show that a polluter has the technical capacity to stop polluting without damaging his own economic interests...
...Church Amendment, which passed the Senate in June, would specifically prohibit direct U.S. air support to Cambodian troops. But near the embattled town of Skoun last week, an Associated Press reporter watched a Cambodian officer request-and get-an air strike by American F-100s, whose bombs landed a scant 300 yds. from the Cambodian positions. In Washington, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird parried the inevitable inquiries about the U.S. air support with an exercise in semantics. The U.S. pilots were not providing "air support" to the Cambodians, Laird said. They were only "interdicting" supplies headed for South Viet...
...industry perfectly suited to the country's scant resources. Diamond cutting and polishing require no water, little power, few fixed assets and only a small work space. The business generates handsome profits for Israel-20% is added to the value of stones by processing them. Diamonds also gain the foreign exchange that Israel's deficit-ridden war economy badly needs...
...only two of the Southern colleagues who had followed his legal lead on so many other bills. And he was opposed by a collection of liberal Northern Senators who might ordinarily be expected to share his constitutional conviction that the bill must be defeated. Opponents were hampered by a scant week's debate on the complex, 243-page bill. But the overriding factor deciding many key, usually liberal votes was the magnitude of Washington's crime problem and the scope of the issue's political ramifications in an election year...