Word: scant
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...fields, against his battered barns, or on his bleak rock shelves. "I want to show Americans what America is like," says Wyeth. He does this with a uniquely American vision-man pressed against the enormous sky by the upsurge of a land that he has owned for such a scant time that he does not yet feel part...
...Chrysler is a bit of a mystery. CEO Robert Nardelli has been somewhat scant on details for new products other than announcing an electric-vehicle platform that has so far not impressed anybody. No one would be surprised if Cerberus, Chrysler's owner, announced some kind of partnership or merger before the year...
...There will likely be scant accountability following the recent extinction of banks like Lehman Bros. and Bear Stearns, the collapse and sale of Merrill Lynch, or he bailout of A.I.G. Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Lehman’s CEO, might not face any more discomfort than his public roasting by Rep. Henry Waxman, the new chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. No judge can sentence him to pay back the $300 million he took from the company in the last few years, because he did so legally—if unethically...
...there are no p.r. minders corralling the visitor in an antechamber while the great man readies himself. He walks promptly into his own reception area with hand extended. Whenever he is in town (home is Singapore), he shares an apartment near the office with foundation staff, who must have scant hope of rest. He has addressed at least 20 conferences this year, espousing the kind of China that everyone wants to see. The most important point about the One Foundation, he says, is the example it sets, "so that when the Chinese become stronger we can take more responsibility...
...least, not a happy gathering, and there were scant grounds for cork-popping celebration...