Word: shrift
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...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...
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...