Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This breath-taking policy change, however, was lost in the fray over the specifics of the Corporation's decision, followed as it was a scant 12 hours later by the Mass Hall takeover. Instead of endorsing the PALC-Afro divestiture proposal, the Corporation announced its own strategy: it had already pressured Gulf to make the disclosure called for in the proxy motion, and it would send an adviser to Africa to obtain first hand information on the specifics of Gulf's role there. It also asked Gulf to set forth a plan for the Corporation's further improving its employment...
...four-story headquarters of the People's Daily on Peking's busy Wang Fu Ching Street bears scant resemblance to a Western newspaper office. A People's Liberation Army soldier with fixed bayonet patrols the main entrance and bars passage to anyone lacking an appointment. Inside, there is no bustle of copy boys, no chorus of jangling telephones. The People's Daily is plainly not a normal newspaper; it is the voice of the Chinese Communist Party. That fact-plus a circulation of 3.4 million -makes it China's most influential publication...
...Crimson epee team, memories of "A Hard Man" must have still been too great of a distraction yesterday morning, because Harvard was little short of pathetic in the weapon, finishing third from last with a scant fifteen points, fourteen behind weapon leader...
...contain worlds inhabited by intelligent life. Yet they have been hard-pressed to prove their case. Interstellar distances are so vast that even the most powerful telescopes on earth could not spot a planet orbiting the sun's nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, which is a relatively scant 4.3 light-years (or about 26 trillion miles) away...
...York tugboat and a naval barracks at Annapolis, Md. They work well. But right now Aqua Sans is too expensive to be widely used. Each flush costs .8? (v. .035? for a conventional toilet). Still, it fills a definite need in places with plenty of business but scant water supplies: for example, in desert gas stations or mountaintop rest rooms, and, of course, on ships...