Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mass audience has paid scant attention to films about the Irish Troubles, but this one may find friends precisely because it renounces political nuance for emotional bullying and old Hollywood-style blarney. The movie's forebears are '30s Warner Bros. melodramas like Kid Galahad (a fighter and his trainer KO the crooks) and Angels with Dirty Faces (the Dead End Kids learn who's the real tough guy). The Boxer could even be a Going My Way without priests--it's that hokey...
...would clearly be happier just meditating finds himself turning to Democrats and Republicans, instructing 140,000 exiled Tibetans in the ways of the world, and winning all the admiration and attention he doesn't particularly need, while making scant headway in his cause. Last September some reporters openly criticized the (non-Tibetan) organizers of his trip to Australia because of their $20 T shirts and official sponsorship from Nike, Thai International Airlines and Ford. I must confess, though, that I know of this only because the Dalai Lama told me of it--and a caustic clipping about the "Dalai Lama...
...begin with unchallenged fact, the Harvard source for grapes for the winter will be in Chile, whose grapes were ranked the 11th most contaminated produce item on American shelves by the Environmental Working Group, basing its statistics on USDA tests. With scant regulation, there is no reason to think Chilean grapes will not continue to have undetected problems, like the cyanide scare that caused a brief governmental ban on Chilean grapes in the late 1980s...
...health-conscious Americans that extra doses of vitamin and mineral supplements can cover a multitude of dietary sins. So it seemed like heresy last week when Jane Brody, the Times' respected health columnist, questioned the value of those supplements and the quantities they are being taken in. "There is scant evidence that vitamin and mineral supplements are beneficial [for most people]," she wrote. "Consumers are, in effect, volunteering for a vast largely unregulated experiment...
Until 1984, Baltimore's schools paid only scant heed to the requirements of the federal Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, which required public schools to provide disabled children with a free, appropriate education designed to meet their unique needs. Susan Leviton, a University of Maryland law professor, used the law, which she called "the greatest piece of social legislation ever written," to file a federal lawsuit in 1984 on behalf of a group of disabled children denied timely delivery of educational services. The lawsuit, known locally as "Vaughn G.," resulted in a 1988 consent decree in which...