Word: shrift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans should take a hint from the protesters and the President. Cut something else--cut defense spending, cut Congressional perks--but don't give the poor children of America short shrift...
...changes that we have called for may have their costs. But the mental health of Harvard's students is simply too important to be given short shrift. Harvard owes it to students paying $26,000 a year to provide the long-term care necessary to their well-being...
...think [the small, discussion format] is good for all students, especially females," she says. "I think guys get the short shrift in a large lecture class, too, but women may be harder...
...Christopher was peddling a revamped approach before NATO, Bob Dole was winding up visits to London and Brussels during which he called for an end to the arms embargo against the Bosnians. The man who will soon become the Republican majority leader in the U.S. Senate was given short shrift in Britain, where Defense Secretary Malcolm Rifkind termed American criticisms of British policy "disgraceful" and demanded that Washington remain silent if it would not send troops to Bosnia...
...Berry didn't want to short-shrift any houses, so he never put in any soft-serve machines...