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Judged by the customary State of the Union standard, Reagan gave relatively short shrift to foreign policy. His most interesting assertion was to link U.S. support of anti-Soviet guerrillas in Afghanistan and the anti-Sandinista contras in Nicaragua with the right of any nation to protect itself from foreign aggression. "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense," he said, and "totally consistent" with the charters of the Organization of American States and the United Nations. The President seemed to be building a legal case for Washington's continued use of covert--and maybe even overt--aid in conflicts that...
Relations between business and the press are often prickly, but they are seldom worse than those between Mobil Oil and the Wall Street Journal. In a story about the oil business last month, the paper gave short shrift to a piece of news that the company thought was important-the closing of a Mobil refinery in West Germany-and devoted a separate story to a report that Percy Pyne, the son-in-law of Mobil Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr., would benefit financially from the company's construction of a $300 million office tower in Chicago. As a result, Mobil...
...library staff in general feels we have gotten second shrift. We are put under pressure to keep growing, but given no place to put the stuff," said the staffer. "They have no real concept that the library is a growing thing...
...network, like many of the individuals covering or watching the Games, has at times been carried away by tides of patriotism and even chauvinism. ABC reporters have unabashedly rooted for U.S. competitors and given short shrift to the athletes of other nations. The expert commentators, almost all of them former U.S. Olympians, have been particularly prone to this. Gymnast Cathy Rigby McCoy, for example, repeatedly implied that the U.S. women gymnasts had been cheated of the team gold medal by judges who favored Rumania or China...
...recounted in the roughly chronological order in which they occur to him and seem somewhat hastily connected by such phrases as "In this vein, I have one last memory to expiate..." This structure does have its limits. Background information inaccessible to memory--for example, genealogical history-- receives short shrift...