A multitude of Iranians took their fight through a holy breach on Saturday from which there appears to be scant turning back.
Last year's festival layout, hot temperatures and scant shade turned any excursion out of family camp into a treacherous slog up and down ravines.
Even if creditors give a struggling company more rope, they are not patient about it, and tight repayment deadlines leave scant time to turn a big company around.
Brian Chappelle, a mortgage consultant, said loans to people like the Alvas, with modest incomes and scant savings, could turn out to be risky.
With a repertory of ingenious sight and sound gags (and scant dialogue), Tati turns a small and grubby beachfront hotel into a sour microcosm of French society, with its fusty social codes and self-important bombast.
Clear Channel has taken what was once a struggling business full of poorly funded stations, broken equipment, offbeat characters and scant profits–and turned it into a beacon of predictability.
The best independent filmmakers manage to turn their scant means into the bounty of rapid and frequent production.
Despite a recent resurgence of religiosity among ordinary Tunisians, which some sociologists ascribe to the impact of Arab satellite television on an information-starved society, there is scant evidence of a turn to politicised Islam.
Wilder's opponent is Luis Ortiz, who calls himself King Kong, and who gave up an extraordinary amateur career in Cuba (he has said that his record was 343 26, though documentation is scant) in order to turn professional in America.
-- T.H.M., Denver A.A check with half a dozen rental agencies in Finland has turned up scant leads.
