Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fellow Texan -- George Bush. During the stunned silence that follows, Strauss adds a cunning hook: For Vice President, we should select one of our young Democratic chargers, someone whose depth and experience compare favorably with Quayle's lack of same. American voters like to diffuse authority and have scant respect for Quayle. The Democratic ticket will...
...example, there is only scant consideration of the enormous legal responsibility the University incurs when official Harvard groups travel abroad. Just imagine what would happen if a bomb blast killed a planeload of Harvard musicians. No doubt, a stampede of attornies (maybe even some Harvard alumni) would trample each other in a rush to file a well-publicized and lucrative class-action suit against the University...
...views on the wisdom of the war, there is a collective sense of respect and obligation toward the men and women in uniform. Yes, the volunteer army means that the sacrifice of having a son, a relative, a friend in Saudi Arabia is shared unevenly. My own burden is scant. But class and caste also shielded people like me from the draft in the 1960s; for much of the Vietnam War, such social inequities were the dirty little secret of the upper middle class. This time, at least, the topic was a major theme of the congressional debate. Such honesty...
That could be the battle cry from an emerging theater in the gulf conflict: the information front. Despite the deluge of words and pictures, analysis and speculation, pouring forth on TV and in print, the supply of reliable, objective information about the war's progress has been scant. Most of the dribs that have been released are coming from -- or have been carefully screened by -- Pentagon officials or their coalition equivalents. Inevitably, frustration with that eye-dropper approach has been on the rise, particularly among correspondents trying to cover the action. For others, less concerned with that friction than with...
...attack came a scant 17 hours after the United Nations deadline for Iraq to withdraw all forces from Kuwait or face possible military reprisals for its August 2 invasion...