It was a decidedly anticlimactic denouement to a whirlwind week during which Galarraga received loud ovations -- the scant and soggy crowd of White Sox fans jumped to its feet and cheered heartily as Galarraga walked to the mound -- and praise from Michigan's governor, Jennifer M. Granholm, who issued a proclamation declaring that he had pitched a perfect game.
But they also know the indignities of playing in "real" bands: cramped vans, empty crowds, scant compensation.
Two public relations firms have been hired to promote it with a modest advertising budget, but the exhibition has received scant attention and small crowds.
Just scant months ago, the crowds Obama was drawing on the stump were being dismissed as something for which the candidate could not claim credit.
The shop was set ablaze, again to the noisy approval of the crowd, though this, too, seemed scant retaliation against murderous thugs.
Ireland rarely ventured into the Australian half - winger Damien Blanch going nearest to the line in the closing stages - as the battling hosts were to unable to provide the scant consolation of a try for the home crowd to cheer.
Scant Russian was heard, but on Thursday night, a samizdat kind of crowd turned out in support of the Russian punk art group Pussy Riot.
At a time when low interest rates and scant inventories of available apartments are helping sellers draw 100-plus crowds to open houses, their neighbors are becoming fed up with what they see as marauding hordes invading their privacy.
In part because immigrants tend to experience housing instability in the form of residential crowding - sometimes called 'hidden homelessness'- literature exploring their experiences with literal homelessness is scant [ 35, 36].
Scant and contradictory information has emerged about the identity of the bomber, who set off powerful explosives in a crowd of people waiting to greet international passengers.
