Word: scantness
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...this golden splendor, the Binghams of Louisville were not precisely household names, unless your household was in Kentucky, where they owned the dominant newspapers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. The papers built, then eroded, a name for excellence; they promoted liberal orthodoxy and civic virtue, but had scant national profile. Thus it is a touch baffling that the past four years have yielded four books linked to the family feud that led to the sale of the dailies and reduced to mere wealth the clan's erstwhile power...
...fellow Texan -- George Bush. During the stunned silence that follows, Strauss adds a cunning hook: For Vice President, we should select one of our young Democratic chargers, someone whose depth and experience compare favorably with Quayle's lack of same. American voters like to diffuse authority and have scant respect for Quayle. The Democratic ticket will...
Albania's communist Party of Labor had scant reason last week to celebrate its landslide victory in the country's historic free elections. Though the communists won a commanding 162 of the 250 People's Assembly seats -- against 65 for the opposition Democratic Party before runoffs in undecided contests -- their victory ignited some of the worst violence the country has seen in more than a year of escalating unrest...
...example, there is only scant consideration of the enormous legal responsibility the University incurs when official Harvard groups travel abroad. Just imagine what would happen if a bomb blast killed a planeload of Harvard musicians. No doubt, a stampede of attornies (maybe even some Harvard alumni) would trample each other in a rush to file a well-publicized and lucrative class-action suit against the University...
That could be the battle cry from an emerging theater in the gulf conflict: the information front. Despite the deluge of words and pictures, analysis and speculation, pouring forth on TV and in print, the supply of reliable, objective information about the war's progress has been scant. Most of the dribs that have been released are coming from -- or have been carefully screened by -- Pentagon officials or their coalition equivalents. Inevitably, frustration with that eye-dropper approach has been on the rise, particularly among correspondents trying to cover the action. For others, less concerned with that friction than with...