Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frei (pronounced fray) had no illusions. "The facts cannot be cloaked," he said. Chile's foreign debt is $2.3 billion, with amortization and interest alone swallowing 50% of export earnings. Gold and dollar reserves are down to a scant $160 million. And then there is inflation. "My great enemy," groans Frei. "From last November to this November it climbed 47%. This cannot...
...Jersey: Incumbent Harrison A. Williams Jr., 44, the state's first Democratic Senator since 1936, expects to profit from an anti-Barry "frontlash" in his second-term bid. Challenger Bernard M. Shanley, 61, a former aide to Dwight Eisenhower, is trying hard, but with scant chance...
Good fortune, as well as hard work, has always contributed heavily to the political and business success of Illinois' Charles Percy (TIME cover, Sept. 18). And in his bid to unseat Democratic Governor Otto Kerner, luck still rides with Chuck. Just a scant few weeks before the election, the Kerner Administration finds itself involved in a much headlined scandal...
...sprint by the Crimson's Charles Redman in an attempt to displace Brown's fifth runner, Jim Ackroyd, and give Harvard a tie, failed by a scant...
...remains the search for principles that lower courts can follow as long as possible. Yet a Justice charged with being the final authority on issues as combustible as obscenity and miscegenation cannot simply look up the answers in a law book. All the written Constitution gives him is a scant 7,000 words of Delphic injunctions and 18th century specifics. To this he must add all he can muster of history, judgment and personal wisdom-the highest kind of statesmanship. Whatever the Constitution's framers envisioned, mused Justice Robert H. Jackson, "must be divined from materials almost as enigmatic...