Word: scanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's top player, freshman Erika deLone, rolled to her 29th singles win this season, crushing Monica Catrina 6-1, 6-1. Including the two games she lost in yesterday's match, deLone has dropped a scant four games (yes, games) in Ivy competition this year...
...think they are doing their job. Others like to see their prose in 96-point type ("The Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies") or work for magazines that savor free publicity in a movie ad ("Peter Travers, Rolling Stone"). But in their little black hearts, ! critics know they have scant individual power. "In order to effectively buy critics," Schickel says, "a studio would have to buy 10 or 20 of them...
That was quite a feat for TV's newest overachiever, who rose through the Today-show ranks in a scant three years. "He is creative, has wonderful news judgment and wants to win," says NBC News president Michael Gartner. "And he happens to be 26." Couric also dismisses any notion that Zucker's youth poses a problem. "He's very intelligent, and he has a real respect for history -- even if he wasn't around when it was made...
...movie Born on The Fourth of July picked up 36 votes while wheeling around on the fringe in New Hampshire. And former Senator Eugene McCarthy, who knocked Lyndon Johnson out of the race with his strong New Hampshire showing in 1968, picked up a mere 211 votes and scant attention this time around...
...fourth-generation American, raised in Fremont, where her father is a dentist. Kristi was born with clubfeet, but the condition was corrected, and by six she was on the ice for keeps. For years she was a superior pairs skater as well and often competed solo with scant practice. It may be a result of giving up the dual assignment, or moving to Edmonton, Alberta, for training, or perhaps the onset of maturity, but in the past year or so she has forged a fluent artistic identity and put aside the more obvious tricks that come easily...