Word: shrifted
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...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...
...capability in areas like transport and intelligence. Not just fighting ability, but also peacekeeping. European defense ministers have to fight battles in their own cabinets for greater defense spending, and the fact that they've signed up for concrete commitments makes it more difficult for European governments to short-shrift defense, which they've done in the past in the knowledge that the Americans would step in in a crisis situation...
...Bush and Al Gore have sparred over which of them will better serve America's seniors in their most desperate hours. In fact, this is the issue on which Gore's been willing to go furthest to the left (he even accused Bill Bradley of giving the issue short shrift). The veep recently signed on to President Clinton's plan to devote nearly $200 billion to extending Medicare coverage to prescription drugs, and seemed to turn a blind eye to Wall Street by saying that the drug companies drastically overcharge consumers - a hint at the sort of market intervention...