Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they have foresightedly been undertaking for the past decade. The Edison Group, which is Italy's biggest utility and one of Nenni's favorite punching bags, has already spread into dozens of industries from steel to synthetic fibers. But even the fat compensation promised the companies is scant solace to many Italian businessmen, who fear that this is only the beginning of further government assaults on private enterprise. Cried Alberto Ferioli, deputy secretary of the business-minded Liberal Party: "This policy threatens Italy's economic miracle." And even Ernesto Manuelli, president of the state-owned Finsider steel...
...these two common markets talk grandly of forming a single black African market in the future. But to create a working common market takes more than a customs union: coordination of fiscal, agricultural and transport policy is also necessary-and so far, the newly independent nations of Africa show scant readiness to surrender any sovereignty...
...textile producers hope to hold onto their European markets, they may now have to liberalize their position on tariffs. Last week's tit-for-tat action by the Common Market is a clear warning against further U.S. lapses into protectionism, and a bold suggestion that the U.S. has scant choice but to accommodate its trade laws to the new economic realities of a resurgent Europe...
...more than what the President and his Agriculture Secretary claimed it to be-merely a teapot tempest. The most important villain in the Estes case is the vast tangle of the farm price-support system, with its accompanying systems of production controls and surplus storage. Price-support programs provide scant help for the neediest farmers; the most bountiful benefits flow to prosperous farmers, who could get along with no Government...
Nature branded a curse on the Northeast. Except in a narrow coastal belt, rain is so scant that 87% of the area consists of parched, brown sertāo, a rolling hinterland matted with cactus-tough scrub where peasants hack at the hard soil with primitive hoes. Two months ago, the first rains in eight months brought a green fuzz to the sertāo. But drought had already ruined this year's crop of beans, corn and manioc-root flour, mainstays of the peasant diet. Famine swept the sertāo, sending thousands of camponeses to the towns...