Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Israel is not likely to offer much to Syria before Geneva, particularly since it is more difficult to negotiate territorial adjustment on the Golan Heights than on the broad Sinai desert. Kissinger, who had hoped to keep the Syrians soothed until he could finish Israeli-Egyptian negotiations, got scant help last week from Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin. Visiting settlements built on the Golan Heights after the 1967 war, Rabin stressed their security value for Israel and added: "We did not build settlements here in order to evacuate them...
...believe that the critical challenge today is to ensure a good education for all. Few whites I believe would object to integration or even busing itself, if its purpose and result were the best possible education rather than the futile shuffling of students from one school to another with scant prospect of a meaningful educational experience in either...
...scant five swimmers will carry Radcliffe's slim hopes for glory against the best swimmers in the East coast when the second leg in the National Championships trilogy gets under way today in Philadelphia...
...last-place finish of highly touted diver Mike Guzewicz in the first one-meter diving competition while Harvard's Dave English won the event in his first home meet of the year. English also took first in the second one-meter event as he beat out Guzewicz by a scant 20/100 of a point. The second competition featured one of the finest diving exhibitions of the year as the top three divers each scored over 270 points...
...pueblos jovenes (slums), who have been badly hurt by soaring price rises on staples, went on a binge of looting. Along Union Street, center of the department-store district, looters made off with radios, TV sets and vacuum cleaners. One man set up a sidewalk stand a scant 300 yards from the Presidential Palace, where he tried to hawk his wares at bargain prices...