Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Bureau Chief Ruth Mehrtens, topped off the close coverage of the campaign by tucking napkin under chin and sharing Edward Brooke's night-be-fore-election "soul food" dinner of pigs' feet and Moet et Chandon champagne. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges, who lives a scant two miles from Ronald Reagan and had followed the candidate's progress for 18 months, did not remember any champagne. "It added up to uncounted cold cups of coffee at airports, box lunches on buses, and in wine country, great clumps of unwashed grapes," Berges recalled. "Once when...
Faced with a surplus of competitors and a hazily divided electorate, New York's gubernatorial candidates turned last week to eye-gouging personal attacks. Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller started the year at an all-time popularity low that gave him scant hope of winning a third term. Throughout a hard, costly campaign, he has narrowed the gap and, toward campaign's end, was hammering at Democrat Frank O'Connor's "demagogy," lack of courage, foresight and "size.'" New York City Council President O'Connor, who is conspicuously short of personal dynamism, effective organization...
Tuberculosis and pneumonia still kill the bulk of Filipinos; teachers are in surplus in Manila, in short supply in the countryside. With 70% of the population engaged in subsistence, peasant-style farming, the average annual income is a scant $140 a year?far less than that of Japan and Formosa. Population growth is among the world's highest: Catholic-dominated Filipinos add 1,000,000 mouths a year to the rice bowl (3.2%). Simultaneously, the economic-growth rate is a minimal 4.2% . The rice yield is scandalously low. Of the world's top 20 major rice-producing nations, the Philippines...
...Berkeley is "more prestigious"-but then he will reel off a host of statistics to prove how much the gap has narrowed. This fall, student enrollment at U.C.L.A. has finally caught up with Berkeley at about 27,500-the planned maximum. Six years ago, U.C.L.A. took in a scant $10 million in research grants; now it gets more than $36 million a year, and its annual budget has more than doubled, to $85 million. On U.C.L.A.'s sprawling campus in Westwood, 31 new buildings costing $142 million have gone up during Murphy's tenure. "Buildings...
...stock peaked at $34 a share; at year's end it had $117 million in deposits, ranked 340th among the nation's 14,000 commercial banks. But despite such apparent success, there were signs of shakiness. Its president resigned last December; his successor left a scant two months later. When President James A. McGuire arrived in March, the bank was already in deep trouble...