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Given scant home-based talent and difficulty recruiting the best talent to Washington, the programming at the Kennedy Center hasn’t been competitive with what large-city performing arts institutions offer.
Bullock is painfully aware that, after a decade of flagging productivity growth and scant reforms to address the issue, the economy can no longer grow at the pace that it did a generation ago.
Because there is such scant biographical information available, this is especially valuable and endearing.
Outside, the Harbor City preschool reflected its industrial neighborhood: scant grass, little shade, amid a block of warehouses full of grinding machinery.
From Los Angeles Times
While details of the agreement made at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos remained scant, many Greenlanders, who fiercely defend their right to self-determination, were disappointed.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
