Word: scanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Woodstock '94 had recycling bins, a solar-powered "Eco Village" and eco-conscious Birkenstockers, but the event was bad news for Mother Earth. A month after the show, Ulster County, New York, authorities say the show's organizers recycled a scant 2 percent of their 15,000 tons of refuse. Promoter Woodstock Ventures risks up to $4,000 a day in fines, since state law says much of the mess can't go in landfills...
...Fair may be gimmicky, but it is also street-smart, chatty and instructive, as well as the best reprise of the 1992 campaign likely to see print. While overly charitable to their candidates, the authors are meticulous and nonideological about the political narrative. There are, to be sure, scant revelations. Mary and James have future careers in politics and remain chary about violating trust in the quest for truth...
...other amenities. Most critical is the housing crisis from bauble to municipal bauble along the glittery necklace of Rocky Mountain resorts. Here, each square foot of real estate today fetches a ransom. Gone to outrageously priced condos are the apartments the help used to rent -- and there is scant room left to build more. The reason is location, location, location: these picturesque hamlets beckon and charm and cost the earth because they are usually isolated and they often cannot grow, surrounded -- especially in the Rockies -- by federal lands that are vertical. And where the private land flattens out sufficiently...
...killed once a week or once every two weeks since a long time before the cease-fire." Still, he says, the enmity and distrust between Protestants and Catholics has hardly waned since the declaration of a cease-fire. According to a poll released today in the Irish media, a scant 9 percent of all Protestants in Ireland believe the cease-fire will be permanent. "You can't unravel 25 years of bitterness in a day," says Connelly. "The hard part is just beginning...
Gathered in Japan, AIDS researchers report scant progress...