Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Bakkensen got the Crimson's other individuals win with his first place in the discus. His winning throw of 177 ft., 8 in was a scant 3 1/4 in. off the Heptagonal record...
Beneath this veneer, however, Yugoslavia began to price itself out of world markets; its trade deficit rose to a record $424 million, draining off the country's scant reserves of foreign exchange. Many factories were forced to halt imports of raw materials, slow down production lines and lay off workers. Faced with creeping unemployment and mounting foreign debts, the government has turned westward for help on two fronts: it is exporting tens of thousands of workers to temporary jobs in labor-short Western Europe, and it is shopping for loans in the U.S. and elsewhere in the capitalist world...
...next foray abroad was to Bonn for talks with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, a free-market economist with scant affection for socialists. Wilson was attentive, polite and respectful toward German dreams of reunification, a hard line toward Moscow, and the recovery of the lands lost to Poland. Wilson did much to soften the traditional anti-German image of the Labor Party, and Erhard was considerably charmed. Britain's new leader returned home with a German promise to buy more British goods to help offset the sterling drain that results from maintenance of the British army on the Rhine...
...Lucky Debonair, an invader from the West Coast, in the lightning-fast time of 1:49. In the Blue Grass, a horse by the name of Swift Ruler came from ten lengths behind and battled it out with Lucky Debonair in the stretch, losing by a scant half length...
...long list of desperately needed economic and social reforms. Partly because of his personal appeal and partly because of widespread distaste for the Marxist Allende, Frei rolled up the largest plurality in Chilean history. Yet in office he faced a lame-duck Congress, in which his party held a scant 33 of the 192 seats, so few that he was unable to win passage of a single major bill. In the congressional campaign, Frei's party urged the voters to make a Parliament for Frei." At best the experts gave Christian Democrats only 65 seats. There were too many...