Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hallie had never heard of Le Chambon until, by chance, in a vast collection of Holocaust documents, he came across a scant description of what the village had done. A professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Hallie was obsessively studying the cruelties of the Nazi era. As he read the few pages that told of Le Chambon, the researcher found his face covered with tears. That night he decided to pursue the story. Within a year he was in the village itself, interviewing, piecing together the chronicle of how the village had organized and functioned, how its leaders...
...Soviet law does not make such appeals very rewarding for people of scant means. The rules provide only for the return of seized property and bank accounts as well as for a payment of two months wages, based on the victim's salary before imprisonment. Though he stands to gain little from his suit, Maloumian already feels amply paid by the irritation that he believes his case has caused Soviet officialdom. "The Soviet Union cannot possibly compensate for the years they took away from me," he says. "If I keep on fighting, it is to help my comrades...
...even while remaining skeptical of the utility company's pacifying pronouncements, decided it was time to warn people living near Three Mile Island to take prudent precautions. First, he asked all residents within ten miles to remain inside their homes with their windows closed (though in fact that provides scant protection from radiation). Then he urged pregnant women and young children within a five-mile radius to move out, and closed schools. He also took the broader step of advising the four counties in the area, where nearly 900,000 people live, to prepare for evacuation. The Harrisburg airport...
When former Dean McGeorge Bundy presented the Faculty with his proposed tutorial legislation back in 1958, he warned his audience not to "underestimate the value of the tutorial program." His audience apparently paid scant attention, because last week Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty on undergraduate education, found himself before the Faculty repeating the same exhortation to what he hopes will prove a more attentive group...
...scant two years later, ABC is attempting to make lightning strike twice - and now everyone is on the alert. When Roots: The Next Generations opens its seven-night run on Sunday, Feb. 18, both audiences and the TV industry will be judging the offspring against its towering parent. Expectations are running high. Commercial time has been sold out for weeks, at $210,000 to $260,000 a minute (compared with $120,000 to $150,000 for Roots 1). The series has already been sold to 20 countries. CBS and NBC will not be caught napping again; their fierce counterprogramming gambits...