Word: scanting
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...Alaska's active Mount Spurr volcano that included a 3-D survey of the hellish terrain and an analysis of gases issuing from belching vents. Among the significant results: the first maps of the crater's surface, normally hidden by outcroppings and haze. Dante also discovered scant sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide in the noxious air, implying that the volcano, which erupted in 1992, will probably stay quiet for a while...
However, economic support from contrastingly wealthy Muslim states like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait has been scant. Even King Hussein of Jordan, a arguably the PLO's greatest ally in the past ten years, has not made a huge effort to aid the Palestinians. In the case of the prosperous oil states, this lack of assistance should not come as a surprise. Palestinians are the manual laborers, the servants, and in every way the second-class citizens of these kingdoms built on black gold...
...have been a largely unreported street clash, in the early-morning hours of June 28, between police and the homosexual clientele of an unlicensed New York City bar, the Stonewall Inn. The brief uprising inspired a gay civil rights movement that until then had few public adherents and scant hope of success. It launched a social revolution that is still changing the way Americans see many of their most basic institutions -- family, church, schools, the military, media and culture, among them. A group long dismissed as deviant or perverted or simply beneath mention has been able to claim a sizable...
...approach has its zealous supporters. Allen Sinai, chief economist for Lehman Brothers, applauds the "totally unprecedented" new strategy of pre-emption. "The old way never worked," he says. "It was always too little and too late." Nevertheless, last week's economic news confirmed that the expansion is in scant danger of overheating. Consumer prices rose just 0.1% in April as falling food and fuel expenses offset a jump in medical costs. At the same time, wholesale prices slipped 0.1% overall. "Here we are three years into the recovery and inflation is still declining," says Ross DeVol, an economist with...
Although one-third of all theses were turned in by 3:30 p.m., 20 were still outstanding a scant 20 minutes before the 5 p.m. deadline...