Word: scanting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...While the two leaders agree on Iraq and McCain now claims to share Bush's commitment to tax cuts, a McCain presidency would in other ways bear only scant resemblance to the Bush years. On the environment, spending, government reform and other issues, McCain remains at odds with Bush. And the corporate ethos of this Administration would be replaced by something dramatically, and perhaps chaotically, less programmed. And yet most voters aren't going to forget their feelings about the current President when they cast their ballots in November. After McCain secured his party's nomination in March, he visited...
Over the past several decades, Asia has produced numerous economic miracles as nations transformed from impoverished backwaters into global competitors. But one miracle that has received scant attention has been the way the region in the first half of this decade has enjoyed generally rapid growth - headlined by booms in China and India - without awakening the beast of inflation that so often roars when economies get overheated. From 2003 to 2007, Asian economies (not including Japan) expanded at an average annual rate of 8.1%, triple that of advanced economies. Over the same period, inflation in Asia averaged a relatively mild...
...history. Praise for Disney classics like Dumbo and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - and contemporary hits like The Lion King and Pixar's Finding Nemo - didn't convince the Academy that those animated films deserved to be considered alongside live-action ones. That's because animated features enjoy scant support from the largest branch of the 6,000 film-industry pros who select the Best Picture candidates every year: actors. "Actors tend to vote for live-action performances," says Variety columnist Anne Thompson. "Lord of the Rings got to Best Picture without any heavily praised performances, but that...
...There's some comfort to be drawn from the fact that bin Laden has not been able to strike on U.S. soil since 9/11. There is scant evidence of al-Qaeda sleeper cells in the U.S. Thanks to more effective intelligence-gathering, immigration control and the heightened vigilance of ordinary Americans, it is very hard for terrorists to slip into the country. It's always possible that homegrown wannabes will mount some sort of attack, but in contrast to the situation in Europe, al-Qaeda's virulent ideology has found few takers in the American Muslim community...
...what was partly a generational conflict, he represented the younger generation, always a plus. Yet, although he has had a significant fundraising advantage since before the primaries began and was anointed the presumptive nominee as early as February when he won eight primaries in a row, he has made scant progress with Hillary’s half of the electorate. Maybe he’s Saint Francis Assisi, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan rolled into one and won’t need any help with any segment of the population going into the fall. But the available evidence is that...