Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even the biggest and most reputable of brokerage houses were at times extremely careless. Proceeding on only scant and unchecked information, branches of Mer rill Lynch and Shearson, Hammill & Co., among others, pushed some high-flying glamour issues that soon collapsed. Among them: Aquafilter, U.S. Automatic Merchandising Corp...
...Dead Sea area has for centuries been buffeted by infernal winds from the Arabian desert, seared by temperatures that often reach 120° and relieved by a scant two inches of rainfall a year. Nature has compensated for its cruelty with a bounty: the Dead Sea holds some 47 billion tons of minerals, which make it one of the world's richest mineral storehouses. At the southern tip of the sea, near the spot where Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt, Israel is using nature's largesse for an economic boom that is revitalizing...
Judged by the record, the odds against a newborn daily newspaper's surviving infancy are astronomical. In Phoenix, Ariz., those long odds overtook the nation's youngest metropolitan daily, the Arizona Journal. Scant weeks short of its first birthday, the Journal found itself out of print, out of money, heavily in debt, and laid out for burial. About all that kept the infant paper out of the grave was a flicker of outside interest...
...Scant hours after Reston's message went out from New York, prudence overtook the management of the Times. Fearing to upset Bert Powers and his printers at a time when it might still be possible to settle with them, the Times sent out a mandatory order to kill the column. A few papers, such as the Houston Chronicle, had already gone to press with it. The Kansas City Star protested the kill order, but the Times's own outposts printed nary a word. And Scotty Reston. who never before had a column suppressed by the paper...
Even with injuries to crucial players, the Crimson's scoring punch should prove too much for Dartmouth. The varsity skaters have produced 74 goals in 14 games while goalie Godfrey Wood has held the opposition to a scant 88 markers...