Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told Gore that Ukraine is in crisis and desperately needs a $2.5 billion bailout from the IMF," says TIME correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "He's hoping the U.S. will use its influence, because right now the IMF has even suspended existing credits to the country." The reason: Ukraine has made scant progress in reforming its Soviet-era economy, nor is it likely to while Kuchma remains shackled by a leftist-dominated parliament...
Many events and trends over the last four years have annoyed me to no end, but one letter to the editors of The Crimson published earlier this semester raised far more ire in me than its scant two paragraphs should have afforded. The letter carried that high pomposity and undeniable self-importance so prized in these pages, but it did not tackle any of the issues our generation of Harvard students have rallied around...
While most undergraduates scattered to the wind this spring break, heading home to spend their scant free time lounging on the couch, a number of student groups stuck together, travelling en masse out of the city, the state or the country...
...seems to me that it is Paula Jones who is harassing the President. She wasn't physically damaged, and in my opinion there is scant proof that she has suffered psychologically or economically. She is after fame and fortune, and you in the media have certainly helped her. This sexual-harassment thing is getting out of hand. When a construction crew whistles at a pretty girl, is that harassment? Men have been coming on to women ever since Adam and Eve. JAY LIVINGSTON Los Angeles...
...Clinton sex scandals on the cover too many times. The tabloids can cover this kind of thing. The Kosovo situation is threatening to thrust the Balkans (and the whole world) back into war, but you give it scant coverage. Which of the two is more important? RUTGER THIJSSEN, age 13 Hilversum, the Netherlands...