Word: scant
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...Bush administration had hoped to avoid the pitfalls of President Clinton's aggressive Middle East matchmaking, arguing that such efforts were bound to fail as long as the parties themselves remain reluctant to conclude a peace deal. But left to their own devices the two sides have shown scant ability to stabilize the situation. Now, one year into the intifada, the overriding priority of the anti-terrorism coalition may force the Bush administration to start knocking heads together...
...reported to the representatives of NATO's 19 member countries that the level of risk was "acceptable" for the alliance to launch the operation. The German Bundestag will meet in special session this week to sign off on its promised contingent of 500 troops, but otherwise there was surprisingly scant political fallout in the alliance's capitals...
...unfortunates left behind to mind the store are left with scant new material to fill their daily or weekly slate. Print leans heavily on "evergreen" profiles, loosely pegged features, and shoe-leather research pieces like the New York Times' barrage of census stories. One of those landed so high on the page last week that Scott Shuger, longtime author of Slate's Today's Papers, dubbed it "an August news drought classsic." Television, meanwhile, scours the arid landscape for naturally sprouting (and hopefully telegenic) phenomena like the heat, sharks, or Al Gore's beard. On a good day, says Washington...
...Faxon feels that many pros, particularly American pros, don?t care enough about the game. They take much from golf-much in money, much in fame-but give little back. They have scant sense of tradition. If they think they haven?t got a good chance of winning a particular tournament, or if the event is the least bit inconvenient to get to, then they give it a miss, even if it?s a competition of some importance. "I do feel too many Americans skip the British," Faxon says. "I?ve been saying that for some time...
While the writers are willing to deal, the publishers have shown scant interest in doing so. "My fervent hope is that the decision spurs companies to sit down with us and negotiate," says union president Jonathan Tasini, who plans to ask for as much as $600 billion in damages and copyright fees when a federal court considers penalties later this year. "The last thing I want to do, although we are prepared to do it, is to litigate this for the next five years." As any freelancers will tell you, they're used to waiting forever to get paid...