Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your article, for which I was interviewed, misrepresents several key points regarding the discussion of the need for more B-2 bombers. You say that Northrop Grumman's firm fixed-price offer for 20 additional B-2s is ``dubious,'' that these aircraft will be ``stripped-down'' versions with ``scant strategic value.'' Northrop Grumman's firm fixed price offers new B- 2s for an average price of $570 million each. Those who question the validity of this price fail to understand the meaning of the term firm fixed price. It means just what it says. It's true there are additional...
Bryan Henry (1:51.88) turned in the inspirational performance of the day in the 800 meter. Henry trailed with a 100 meters to go, pulled even by 50 meters left and passed a Princeton runner to take the lead with a scant 25 meters to go in the race...
With the game knotted at 56 and a scant 2.2 seconds left on the clock, Fischer put back his own miss for the winning hoop and the Crimson's sixth win in the last eight years at Columbia...
...cost. Even minus their hefty development cost, the first batch cost more than $1 billion a plane. But Northrop's new price tag is dubious, and the bargain questionable. Defense experts expect the final price to balloon. More important, U.S. taxpayers could be buying a flying white elephant with scant strategic value because the key weapons it requires to justify the investment don't exist...
...give the stalled negotiations a push forward. After his four hours of talks, Clinton claimed he had done that -- at least in private. "We've made some progress today," he said, "the details of which I'm not at liberty to discuss." Though evidence of such progress was scant, Rabin politely agreed there was some. Syrians and Israelis alike told Clinton they wanted peace and would work to achieve it. That was slightly promising and probably about the best Clinton could have hoped for his first time around...