Word: shrift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff's cruel indictment of Richard Milhous Nixon on his funeral day gives short shrift to the lasting accomplishments and profound impact of America's 37th president. Today, as the nation bids him farewell, we should remember President Nixon as a man who, perhaps more than any other in the past half century, helped to define our modern political life...
...course, there are other arguments against Clipper, most of them more compelling than the one that Mr. Liu is able to muster. But by merely beating the drum of social paranoia, he gives short shrift to not only these other potential arguments, but also the genuinely legitimate interest of the government to protect us all against electronic criminals. Brian d. Galle...
...paper's article on the April 10 crew regatta, while describing in some detail all three of the men's teams races--varsity, junior varsity and novice heavyweights--only discussed one of the three women's races that had occurred that day, and even gave that short shrift. The article interviewed men's varsity coach Harry Parker and one oarsman, while it only quoted the varsity women's coxswain. In the final paragraph, titled "Other Crews," reporter Ahmad Atwan interviewed novice rower Terran Senftleben about the novice men's heavyweight race, which Harvard lost. Radcliffe's junior varsity and novice...
Clinton has scheduled private briefings this week to consider some of the tough choices that he gave short shrift during the economic summit: a hike in the gasoline tax, a new national sales tax and a tax on employer-provided medical insurance -- each of which could be rebated to lower- and middle- income taxpayers. Another option: "redefine" Clinton's pledge by vowing to eliminate the deficit by the end of his second term...
...setting aside the fact that most of us--students or otherwise--have absolutely no formal role in deciding what gets cut, we don't even know how money is currently spent. This means we can't even informally advise administrators on what's receiving short shrift and what's getting too much cash...