Word: shrift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to support a governor who can balance the budget and increase government services, all while cutting taxes. But such slights of hand may become more difficult if the economy does not continue its expansion, and voters may then give short shrift to Ventura's unique approach to politics...
...York Post columnist complained shrilly that Christians, in death, get short shrift. "To so many media figures, Christians ? specifically evangelicals, orthodox Catholics and others who believe in traditional Judeo-Christian moral teaching ?- are not victims, but victimizers," wrote the columnist, Rod Dreher. "If Larry Gene Ashbrook, guns blazing, had walked into a synagogue, gay bar, an abortion clinic or even a black church service, there is no doubt what the government, cultural and media elite?s reaction would be." Dreher is right about one thing: Ashbrook?s massacre is a hate crime, and might even have been stamped as such...
...other candidates getting a short shrift, Berke argued that it's impossible to give everyone equal, adequate coverage...
...other candidates getting a short shrift, Berke argued that it's impossible to give everyone equal, adequate coverage...
...remarkable institution called Odyssey of the Mind. OM, as it's known, gives kids from kindergarten through college a chance to practice teamwork while exercising the mental muscles responsible for creativity. Founded in 1978 by two New Jersey educators who felt that imaginative problem solving was getting short shrift in schools, OM has grown to include teams from all 50 states and 41 other countries; about half a million kids now participate worldwide, competing in regional, state and national contests that culminate in the World Finals each spring...