Word: shrifted
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Partly because of inexperience in dealing with Congress, Carter and his aides were handed some sharp rebukes. The President's backing of public financing of congressional campaigns was given short shrift by legislators who were elected under the present system?and like it just fine. His effort to pay off a campaign promise to maritime unions by fixing the percentage of imported oil that must be carried in U.S. ships was scuttled. Congress bowed to all-out oil industry lobbying and killed a plan to emphasize environmental considerations in offshore oil leases. Carter wanted to shelve 23 major water projects...
...critics, including a number of visiting committee members, accept economics as one aspect of planning but they claim that the current program gives short shrift to social, political and physical factors in the planning process. Faculty members who share Kain's viewpoint, many of whom entered the department within the last few years, note that the remaining core courses--Planning Process: Political and Institutional Analysis, Planning Law and Administration and Urban Growth and Spatial Structure--provide students with the necessary foundation in other relevant disciplines, including physical planning. H. James Brown Jr., professor of City Planning, sums up the opinion...
Landscape as Cop-Out. These paintings, central to the so-called West Coast look, were the figurative works of a man who had once been an abstract painter and would become one again; purist criticism gave them short shrift. Landscape was regarded as the abstractionist's copout. Diebenkorn's work was described as abstract expressionism (the New York style par excellence) diluted for West Coast palates. If not unserious, at least it was not major. "It was always a putdown for me in the '50s," recalls Diebenkorn, 55, a big, reticent man with a no-nonsense bearing...
Perhaps Wilson's core committee seemed seemed to give the Humanities short shrift in the original report, the Faculty Council has seemingly overcompensated. It has devoted two of the new areas to "Arts and Letters" and "Foreign Languages and Cultures." There is nothing wrong with such a catch-all area as "Arts and Letters" except for the fact that it moves far away from the distinct headings of the task force's report. But the addition of "Foreign Languages and Cultures" in place of "Non-Western Civilization" effectively eliminates Rosovsky's hopes for everyone learning about Third World or Socialist...
...underline her point about how women's work is consistently given short shrift, Howe includes a few choice listings from the Labor Department's Dictionary of Occupational Titles. It ranks some 30,000 jobs according to their level of complexity. "Nurse, midwife" is classified as less skilled than hotel clerk; "homemaker," cross-referenced with "general maid," ranks slightly lower than dog-pound attendant...