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...slightly altered--if not warped--by their pre-occupation with "practical" matters. This, at least, is the argument of those who decry "University complicity." It is also an allegation of more moderate students who feel that the Economics Department overemphasizes problems of monetary and fiscal policy and gives short shrift to the tougher problem of redistributing goods more equitably in America...
Reuther took to the tube to ensure swift ratification of his contract, amid fears that Ford's 20,000 skilled workers, who generally complain of getting short shrift compared with their counterparts in the building trades, might revolt. One truculent group shouting "No! No! No!" gathered at a demonstration that ended in a fist-swinging brawl with union officials. In the end, however, the vote ran overwhelmingly-9 to 1 in the case of production workers, nearly 3 to 1 among the skilled men-to stop the costly 49-day strike...
...castigating as "wanderers": "Instead of fighting on the battlefront, they wander around school campuses, parks and streets; they spend their time in swimming pools and playing chess and cards. They take an attitude of nonintervention in the struggle." But Mao's men tend to give such wanderers short shrift. The aim of education is preparation for political action, and Maoist leaders have no intention of letting their Red Guards go soft in school. "The current Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is only the first one," warn Mao's spokesmen. "There will definitely be more in the future...
...pattern of recent years, graduates were keen on aerospace, electronics, chemical, oil and other hightechnology, high-growth companies. The oft-discussed student distaste for business, on the other hand, focused mainly on sales jobs. As a result, offers from food and beverage companies, merchandisers and insurance firms, got short shrift...
Johnson's speech gave surprisingly short shrift to past achievements. And, possibly in reaction to recent complaints from Democratic Governors, the President was disarmingly frank about the problems created by the avalanche of social legislation enacted under his aegis. He allowed that his Great Society "required trial and error, and it has produced both." And he averred with unwonted humility: "As we learn through success and failure, we are changing our strategy, and we are trying to improve our tactics. . . . Where there have been mistakes we will try very hard to correct them...