Word: shrift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gaylord said that young, non-tenured faculty members are getting short shrift from the plan...
Other fired faculty said the administration is giving short shrift to scholarship and is compromising academic ideals...
Despite his candor, Evans leaves out some intriguing material. There's no mention of his friend Heidi Fleiss, for example, and he makes just a throwaway reference to his role in a stock scheme that allegedly scammed millions from investors. Even the Cotton Club murder gets short shrift; it's dispensed with in 14 pages. Still, Evans demonstrates that despite his years in Hollywood, he has the right values: he devotes a mere four pages to his tennis game...
...losses since 1992 and is disdained by Democrats who believe he wasn't doing enough to prevent a rout in November's ballot. Some congressional Democrats complained that Wilhelm was so intent on using D.N.C. funds to promote Clinton programs like health-care reform that he has given short shrift to Democratic candidates hungry for support. Mikulski, who sees herself as the protector of the Senate's women, griped about Wilhelm's refusal to spend another $1 million on advertising in California, where Senator Dianne Feinstein is facing an extremely rough challenge from Republican Congressman Michael Huffington. Wilhelm had already...
...seriously. The Los Angeles Times, by contrast, unhesitatingly reported Jones' charges in February. Of the TV networks, ABC ran a brief and oblique mention on an evening newscast in February, but NBC, CNN and CBS held off until last week, and even then mostly gave the story short shrift. TIME briefly mentioned the case in a two-page story on Clinton haters in the April 11 issue, while last week Newsweek used the gist of Jones' charges as a metaphor for the President's governing style in a five-page critique titled "The Politics of Promiscuity...