Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally spending a bit of money on herself, and has given $150,000 to a scholarship fund exclusively for black college students. Instead of congratulating her on her thrift and industry, Michael Kinsley nitpicked about reverse discrimination and quotas [ESSAY, Aug. 28]. One hears scant protest when wealthy alumni donate far greater sums to the Harvards and Yales of America for the benefit of wealthy whites. How quickly white people refer to the Constitution and equal opportunity when their interests are even minutely affected. In this instance there is no need for debate. McCarty has been a good and faithful...
...treatments. In each case, the charges were thrown out. What infuriates ADA advocates is that most of the 45,000 complaints filed over the past three years with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission have been brought by people citing types of disabilities--back problems, depression, neurological disorders--that received scant mention when the ADA was crafted...
...brilliant," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "He's won on both counts: it looks like he was fair in bringing this to a vote, and he's engineered it so there's no chance Foster can succeed." Knowing the doctor would likely fall short, Dole is allowing supporters a scant 24 hours to regroup before a second and final vote Thursday. Overnight, Tumulty reports, Democratic lobbying will target four Republican senators, three of whom must change their minds if the Senate is to reach a decision on Foster: John Warner of Virginia, Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Ted Stevens of Alaska...
BORIS YELTSIN Bold speeches, but scant funds for Sakhalin quake relief...
...ongoing debacle in Bosnia. The attack on Zagreb marked a new nadir of humiliation for U.N. peacekeepers, who were variously ignored by attacking Croats, taken hostage by Krajina Serbs and dropped into the midst of a fire fight when they returned to the sector on Thursday under the scant cover of a U.N.-declared cease-fire. U.N. special representative Yasushi Akashi, who is head of the U.N.'s peacekeeping operation in the former Yugoslavia, managed after the second round of rockets to engineer a cease-fire in Sector West. But when he tried to fly into the sector on Thursday...