The milieu is distinctive, but the challenges facing the school, its students and its staff – lack of funding, overstretched facilities, large classes, a dearth of teacher training, children failing to progress to secondary education in sufficient numbers – reflect a pattern discernible across many developing regions.
Mr. Wiener said the fees were symptomatic of a larger issue: a dearth of affordable housing to meet growing demand.
The ambiguity here points to a much larger problem: the dearth of serious scientific studies on gun violence.
With so many families flocking to neighborhoods like West Chelsea, which is bounded by West 14th Street, West 30th, Ninth Avenue and the Hudson River, there is a relative dearth of large apartments downtown.
While the manual attempted to provide a clinically useful approach, it was hampered to a large extent by the dearth of accurate measures; as Walter Mischel points out in his 1968 book "Personality and Assessment," almost every known tool offered a pitifully small correlation to actual behavior.
The investors also said that they felt they had little or no control over their retirement or investment assets, with large majorities citing a dearth of national leadership, wild volatility on Wall Street and the "confrontational political stalemate in the nation's capital" as "major factors" harming their ability to ensure their nest eggs grow.
With a dearth of large new copper mines in the works and lower production from existing mines, supply growth is limited, and strong demand should keep prices high.
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network has two things going for it: the resources to wait for the world economy to improve and a dearth of large competitors.
Israel is a very small country with a relative dearth of large companies though, a huge challenge for startups looking to scale up.
These targets were perhaps unrealistically ambitious, especially in cities with a large population and a dearth of affordable housing, like New York and Los Angeles.
