Word: shrift
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Summers’ honeymoon—if there was one—ended several days ago when the story broke. In the days following, it has snowballed. Now Latino professors, quoted in the Boston Globe, are saying they feel Summers has given their calls for a center short shrift. One administrator speculated that there may be a bandwagon effect...
...Unfortunately," says Phaeton's therapist, "the mythic side of man is given short shrift these days. He can no longer create fables." A professor of performance studies at Northwestern University, Zimmerman, 41, has been creating stage fables for years from her base in Chicago, just off the radar screen of the East Coast tastemakers...
Triglycerides, free-floating molecules that circulate in our blood transporting fats for storage and metabolism, were given short shrift eight years ago. But recent studies show that elevated triglyceride levels significantly increase risk of heart disease. It's now recommended that even borderline-high triglyceride levels (150 to 199) be treated through weight control and physical activity and, in extreme cases, with drugs...
...Legalization advocates worry that Walters will give short shrift to demand-side programs like treatment. He says he won?t dismiss treatment programs, but will demand that they be carefully evaluated for effectiveness...
...that it’s clear our troops will not be diddling about the scenic foothills of Macedonia, keeping the peace or what have you, and that peacekeeping in general will probably receive short shrift in the next few years, the enlightened section of humanity is getting that righteous floored-huffy look again...