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Gore's endorsements come in part because he is perceived as a safe favorite son for Southerners. He is pursuing a risky strategy that has failed others who gave short shrift to Iowa and New Hampshire. But 1988 has its own dynamics. With such a diffuse and crowded field and a chance that the early votes will be splintered, there is a distinct advantage to having a regional base, especially if no one else does. Gore's base helped him enter the new year with nearly $2.4 million in ready campaign cash, second only to Michael Dukakis among Democrats. Consultant...
...page report, "universities give the highest rewards to those faculty members who may not be committed to giving their best efforts to the students." Harvard undergraduates--in case those watching recent tenure decisions have been wondering--aren't the only people concerned that teaching is getting short shrift...
They fear that creatures unknown to science are gestating in the sink of their slum flat. They know their agents can give them just as short shrift by long distance. Perhaps a country visit will rescue their faith in the universe's orderliness. Well, they have reckoned without the rain, mud and chill. Or the bull in a neighbor's field. Or the queenly ardor of Withnail's Uncle Monty (a sweetly mad Richard Griffiths), who turns up to pursue his hopeless passion for "and I." Somehow, Wordsworth failed to mention these inconveniences...
Other superb supporting performances get short shrift. Tess Harper and Carol Kane, who play the wives of the hapless duo are featured only briefly and Charles Grodin's deadpan performance as CIA agent Jim Davidson gets lost in the mish-mash of the plot...
...have gone unnoticed. For a time, beginning in the late '70s, the Havana government tolerated financial freewheeling on a modest scale, and Cubans grew accustomed to it. Moonlighting for extra income became commonplace among Cubans with skills in plumbing, shoe cobbling, auto repair and other personal services given short shrift by the centralized economy. Homebuilding turned into a lively cottage industry that helped ease the island nation's chronic housing shortage and rewarded the handy. Faring best of all were the country's farmers, who were allowed to sell items produced in excess of government quotas on the open market...