But dried cartilage goes for $1 a pound wholesale and wet cartilage for even less, giving fisherman scant incentive to harvest this product for its own sake.

Until recently, there has been little competition with the result that there has been scant incentive in improve production and marketing techniques.

A disc-jockey brother sends him music files, giving him scant incentive to scour the Internet for others.

Since most teams put up little (if any) of their own money, they have scant incentive to economize on the parks.

The powerful have scant incentive to account for that wealth and great reason to discourage those who seek to.

There is scant incentive to widen their horizons - to read books, found clubs or stage plays.

And the person renting the apartment, who may intend to stay for a year or two, has scant incentive to buy energy-efficient appliances.

This kind of domestic environment offers scant incentive to savor the thoughtful pleasures of science, he suggests.

For these owners, there seems to be scant incentive to rush the meter installation.

This averages $2,700 a case, according to Geoff Gallas, the executive administrator of Philadelphia's courts - scant incentive for doing a good job.