Word: shrifted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mediator has only resulted in the delay of contract negotiations that could, if prolonged, persuade the union to give in on the moral issue as the only means of achieving a quick settlement of the bread-and-butter questions of pay and benefits. Such a development would give short shrift to an important union grievance, and only serve to exacerbate an already difficult situation. While the temptation to avoid the reorganization question might be great, the University should give more credence to all the union's demands, and thus achieve a quick and far-reaching accommodation that will avoid even...
...short shrift given dissent reinforces one's suspicion that data was matched to a preconceived analysis. This "study" of female sexuality devotes only about a dozen pages to women who are able to orgasm during intercourse and who do enjoy satisfactory heterosexual relationships. Even though Hite was not primarily interested in examining contentment, this imbalance unfortunately abets those aiming to detract from the report's overall accuracy...
...turn may have been coming. Obsessed with features and columnists, Schiff gave increasingly short shrift to news coverage. Her tightfistedness with the Post editorial budget extended to approving all out-of-town trips for reporters. Despite the paper's midday monopoly, circulation and advertising began to dwindle, and the paper has been barely making a profit...
Most undergraduates here feel generally that they're getting the short shrift; the conventional wisdom is that if it's just a good college education you're looking for, rather than the Harvard mystique, you should have gone elsewhere. You won't get much individual attention from faculty members, and you're mostly allowed to go your own way. Harvard leaves you alone...
...breakup of the Education and Labor Committee, fearing that a Labor Committee would focus too narrowly, like some kind of arbitrator, on management-labor disputes. A coalition of environmental groups opposed the marriage of energy and environment in one committee, fearing that their cause would receive short shrift in a group dominated by energy producers...