Word: shrifted
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...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...
...have been wasting his breath. President Bush, under pressure from the energy industry, recently tore up his own campaign promise to cut carbon-dioxide outputs from power stations. And if he's prepared to treat his own environment secretary like Cinderella, he was always going to give short shrift to the pleas of a German "Third Way" socialist...
...Bioland, the largest association of organic farmers in Germany. Their complaint: Künast has done little to reform the Agriculture Ministry, which stayed in Bonn when the government moved to Berlin. As a result, Dosch says, the ministry remains dominated by old-style officials who give short shrift to new farming methods...
...Burns for spending so much time on these looming figures because, at the last, they are the ones who made the history he is setting down here. Writer Ward has compared the various warring partisans of jazz to a dysfunctional family, and all the sniping and complaining about short shrift for today's talent miss the mark that he and Burns aimed for. They are laying a foundation, making this music, whether it's as old as Armstrong's Hot Fives from the '20s or Davis' Kind of Blue from the '50s, not only alive again but also audacious again...