Still, the average income grew by just 0.6percentt, far less than the rate of inflation, to $6,290, an increase of a scant $45 over 1997.
Against a backdrop of prolonged consumer stinginess, reinforced Friday by reports of a scant monthly increase in August retail sales, an anemic back-to-school performance may herald more economic sluggishness to come.
As for Mr. Coen's worldwide forecasts, his total for 2002 of $448 billion, compared with $440.9 billion in 2001, is based on a scant 0.5percentt increase overseas along with the 2.6percentt increase in the United States.
That's a scant 1% increase over the 2014 budget of $7.2 billion.
-- for home price appreciation in the nation's 220 largest metropolitan areas, according to the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, logging a scant 1percentt increase for the year, far below the national average of 7.7percentt.
But Wal-Mart Stores reported a scant 2percentt increase in profits.
But with little investment there is scant hope of the increase in productivity needed to justify a wage boost.
Studies of AKI that does not require dialysis are relatively scant, despite the increasing prevalence of patients with this condition [ 2, 3].
18 Evidence is scant of the impact on the quality of diabetes care of a widespread and routine increased nursing contribution.
In the face of scant evidence of voter fraud, there is no reason to increase barriers to voting.
Protesters standing in floodwaters hold a sign that reads: "Can we talk about climate change now?" Scant media coverage of the link between increasing weather extremes and a warming world suggests it's a conversation still seriously waiting to begin.
