Word: shrifted
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...couldn’t say. I do hope that the Institute or some other organization will stay as an agency for women at Harvard. Perhaps because of our history, I am concerned that women might get the short shrift, and that would be regression. I don’t know whether it should be up to the Institute or what, but it has been the role in Radcliffe in the past...
...people around every year would impair their ability to form relationships with House masters, tutors and the like. While not wholly lacking in validity, this claim, like the one regarding House spirit, does not even approach a fair justification for giving whole swathes of the student population such short shrift. And one could quite readily make the case that the opportunity to meet three times as many tutors—by switching Houses each year—handily offsets whatever might be lost by shifting us around in an equitable manner...
...then it would still be immeasurably better to let the trees burn rather than log them. The entire eco-system relies on the renewal of nutrients to the soil, which would be lacking if the trees were removed instead of burned. Either way, however, this argument holds absolutely no shrift in Alaska, where fires rarely exceed a few acres in range, since both Tongass and Chugach are rainforests. This logging, no matter which way you cut it, severely disrupts the eco-system in these areas, with wide-ranging effects on wildlife, soil erosion, carbon dioxide levels and a number...
Neighbors and local politicians alike said that Harvard gave Cambridge short shrift under the watch of former Vice President Paul S. Grogan, whose major focus had been improving the University’s relationship with Boston...
...raged for millions of years. Powerplays and politics lend resonance to the battles that occur, often taking center stage. The interpersonal dynamics between the various Transformers are handled in a credible fashion that restore realism to the most unrealistic scenarios. This not to imply that action is given short shrift, for the fighting is frequent and furious. Nor does the action serve some obligatory masturbatory fix; he cleverly avoids the tedium that accompanies extended battle scenes by subordinating them to the plot. The novel maintains a fantastic tension throughout, with just the right number of pauses to let the reader...