Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of some editors, there has also been a tendency during the latter stages of Watergate to overemphasize developments damaging to Nixon's case and give relatively scant treatment to stories supporting...
Always fierce, competition to get into U.S. medical schools this year has reached unparalleled heights-and depths. The number of would-be physicians has increased enormously over the past decade, but medical school expansion has not kept pace. Some 41,000 applicants are fighting for a scant 14,400 places. At many universities, pre-med students are engaged in a sort of academic guerrilla war to assure not only higher grades for themselves but also lower grades for their competing classmates. The result is an unhealthy atmosphere that could hurt the quality of American medicine...
...would think that the Elis would plead nolo contendere before daring to challenge Radcliffe again. The two crews have already met twice this season. Radcliffe defeated the Blue by a scant two seats in its season opener, and then trounced the Bulldogs by open water in last week's Sprints. But tomorrow things could be different...
...McLaughlin, a labor expert at the University of Michigan, who surveyed domestics working for 50 professional women in Ann Arbor and found that the employers were apt to deny their household help benefits they themselves take for granted. Less than 5% of the employers provide paid holidays and a scant 11% grant paid sick leave. Regular, automatic raises are given by only 17% of the employers and only 53% of the professional women paid into the social security fund...
...contest, a Harvard oarsman caught a massive crab in the first ten strokes of the race, leaving the Crimson a length behind with the race hardly begun. The Tigers staved off a furious Crimson charge at the finish and held on to win by the narrowest of margins, a scant .2 seconds...