Word: shrifted
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...been asking the question "Do We Still Need the Saudis?" (No, is the usual answer). Concerns over everything from the price of oil to the prospect that cutting Saudi Arabia loose might very well hand the country over to the likes of Osama bin Laden are given short shrift. Typical is the essay in the neo-con flagship journal Commentary, arguing for Washington to abandon the Saudis and foment a region-wide revolution against Arab authoritarianism in an effort to remake the Middle East on terms friendlier to the U.S. and Israel...
...black man. Joe Morton, playing the imagined culprit, and Sally Murphy, as Smith, alternately recap news reports on the crime and give voice to Eady's poetic riffs on race and stereotyping. It's sober, well-intentioned evening (with evocative music by Diedre Murray) that, unfortunately, gives short shrift to the most intriguing questions about the crime (like why Smith did it) and fails to engage us dramatically...
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...