Word: shrifted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...make fiscal responsibility a priority in the 2004 campaign. We eagerly listened to the election 2000 debates on the tantalizing prospects of a budget surplus, and today youth must make their voices heard by going to the polls to make sure candidates don’t give short shrift to the alarming deficits...
Wait. Berenson’s attempts are “misplaced?” Talk about having this whole thing backwards. “Misplaced” describes the viewpoint of students who (a) have painfully little regard for history and give incredibly and foolishly short shrift to the opinion of a man who is an ambassador of his sport and (b) equate seventh-grade humor with having “one of the greatest experiences in all of athletics...
While the Faculty Council’s intention might be to accommodate this student demand, the proposal has the potential to dilute the focus of the Committee on Women’s Studies and give short shrift to the emerging fields of gender and sexuality studies that deserve their own independent focus. While women’s studies deals with issues confronting the female gender, sexuality and gender studies focuses on studies of identity and sexuality for both men and women. As we have argued in the past, sexuality studies are so vital to our academic goals that the development...
...loves to fish off the banks of quiet Forest Lake with his two oldest grandkids, both of whom live within 30 miles of his home in Circle Pines, Minn. But Abler admits that with so many grandchildren--six in all--sometimes the littlest in the pack get short shrift, especially Sadie, 7. "When I go visit her and her brother, she says hi and then runs off to play," Abler, 59, says. "I've always wanted to be closer, but I really wasn't sure how since I never raised a daughter...
...notes in the introduction. This is a staggering understatement. The only overseas problem that is not explored in these pages may be the deforestation caused by the printing of 1 million copies of Living History. Every other issue, especially those affecting poor women and children, is given long shrift. In a way, this is understandable. The overseas trips were Hillary's happiest times as First Lady. Every crowd was adoring; every stop promoted a worthy cause. Even the traveling press was friendly. She often traveled with Chelsea, and they were a joy to watch together. I was on the first...