Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that students we admit early are making better informed decisions about their college choice and financial aid options. Obtaining higher yields may have been part of the motivation for colleges that adopted binding early decision programs, but our yield of approximately 90 percent for Early Action students seems a scant difference given the gains students receive in return...
...University's infrastructure. This year's show of support at Cultural Rhythms was a positive sign that perhaps the fight will be renewed with even greater vigor. Yet it is important to remember that last year saw the same exhibition of green armbands, and that we have made scant progress since. Our patience may be almost exhausted, but the administration must know that our commitment...
Although it was heartening to see hundreds of performers and audience members wearing green armbands in support of race and ethnic studies, the fact that the same thing happened last year only serves to indicate that the RES movement has made scant progress at Harvard...
...such precision highlights a problem: the effectiveness of those weapons is directly proportional to the quality of the intelligence used in selecting their targets. For many sites on the Pentagon's growing list of Iraqi targets, U.S. knowledge is scant. If war does come to Iraq soon, it is a good bet that lots of very expensive U.S. smart bombs are going to be blowing up lots of recently vacated Iraqi buildings...
...true." Zaks says he took on the daunting task because he was excited by the chance to "help something already on its way to being something, to become what it wants to be," and he says he's happy with the results after a scant three weeks. The show's producers, meanwhile, insist that all the negative publicity has been unfair. "Would I wish this kind of scrutiny and fishbowl on any artist?" asks producer Edgar Dobie...