11.   The Democratic platform, written weeks ago with scant public notice, is so moderate that much of it sounds Republican.

12.   The scant notice was fine with Perella.

13.   Unlike most engineering and scientific centers that attract scant public notice, the lab has at times found or thrust itself in the center of controversies.

14.   Normally an election squabble in a small Mexican town would get scant notice in Mexican media.