It seemed only a matter of time before some firebreathing demagogue with scant knowledge of economics, scant love of democracy and scant understanding of the world beyond Slavdom would be ensconced in the Kremlin.
Pfizer has been struggling to convince investors that it can withstand an unprecedented number of patent expirations despite a scant number of experimental drugs in clinical trials.
After all, in the spring of 1997, when Microsoft announced the acquisition, WebTV Networks was a two-year-old stripling of a startup with an oversized marketing budget, an aging demographic (25% over the age of 50) and a scant number of subscribers (less than 100, 000).
Sadly, as Beijing's heavy-handed control of the Olympics suggests, there is scant hope of that.
But at least your penny-and-a-half of profit on the sales dollar comes with a scant dose of capital.
Instead of a whole new world to explore, we got a series of linear quests, a few new items and a scant number of new enemies.
This week's strikes are probably a blip: multi-year pay deals have settled most of the tricky public-sector pay questions and there is scant sign of wage pressures in the private sector.
The case illustrates the difficulty of pinning a side effect to a particular drug based on the scant reports of side effects that come to the FDA. It is extremely difficult to link a side effect, like an inflamed pancreas, with a particular drug.
Over the past four years, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and millions displayed in a conflict over the scant resources of the region.
In all the buzz about Michael Ovitz's most recent downfall and the collapse of his once-grandiose scheme to reinvent Hollywood (again), there has been scant mention of Jeffrey Kwatinetz.
Usually the water problem is a natural one of scant rainfall or the absence of topographical means of collection and retention, such as mountains for snowpack or lakes and flowing rivers.
With scant hope of peaceful change through elections, challengers inevitably consider other, more violent, options.
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To make matters worse, the government also has scant hope of reviving another major source of revenue.
The course was rewritten to assume little or no faith, and only scant knowledge of the Bible.
And there is scant prospect of a hostile tender offer to rescue the shareholders of a mismanaged private REIT.
Yep, five bucks for a scant triangle of tomato sauce, crust and cheese.
Japanese investors have, after all, been selling all the way up and show scant sign of reversing this stance.
Aside from a few scant nuggets of information, it was one of the most boring conference experiences of my life.
Almost overnight, the Oklahoma City attacks destroyed the scant credibility of the type of right-wing militia groups that McVeigh had associated with.
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In this period, President Obama needed to wrestle with far greater problems than gun control, and he made scant mention of it.
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Even if talks do begin again, there is scant expectation of success.
SOEs have little chance of becoming competitive if they continue to be drip-fed with loans from state-owned banks that they have scant chance of repaying.
The idea that four poorer countries with scant record of co-operation, even on simple things, can finance and build something so costly and complex seems a stretch.
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All too often, senior bank managers have shown scant understanding of the sorts of risks their traders are running, let alone a knowledge of the bank's controls.
" But you'll find scant mention of this in their documents, and it appears that their internal budget allocations will treat the "helpers" more generously than the "disrupters.
There was scant disclosure of the delay until Forbes reported it last November, leading to a raft of criticism from experts about the way the study has been handled.
The latter displeased us a little with its scant array of available tweaks, which curiously enough doesn't even allow you to toggle the Arc's Macro mode on and off.
Fears of tighter credit in China weighed on stockmarkets this week but the signs still point to very gradual tightening and scant dampening of growth in China and the rest of the emerging world.
Mark Zuckerberg and the Home crew made scant mention of ads during their presentation but they will certainly make their way into the Home Feed just as they have into the News Feed.
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