Word: shrifted
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...three other courses examined. AP Chemistry, Biology and Physics were found to be too sweeping in scope, lacking the depth of a good college course. The study's authors concluded that the practice and understanding of laboratory work--a critical piece of college-level science--was given short shrift both in the AP teacher's manuals and on the exams. They lamented that a "significant number of examination questions ... appear to require only rote learning" rather than a deeper understanding of science...
...patients and may last less than a year--enough to catch major problems. But once a drug passes muster with the FDA, it is often prescribed for millions of people. That's when more subtle side effects may emerge. Unfortunately, so-called postapproval surveillance still tends to get short shrift...
More to the point, which artworks he and his three curator colleagues decide to hang on the museum's walls is a heated question. Even among people who complain that the Modern gives short shrift to the new, no other institution has MOMA's power to confer legitimacy on both the living and the dead. What it anoints as central to the story of modern art is hugely influential among scholars, collectors and other museums. And what MOMA minimizes must struggle a bit to be taken seriously. The old Modern was never particularly interested in postwar British art. Will...
...families with three or more kids, the middle children ended up getting short shrift from the parents, unbeknownst to the parents. The problem was that they were less likely to get educational investment, and they were therefore more at risk to fail educationally...
...with the proposed tax cuts," she writes, "the same tax cuts that had propelled us to a resounding 49% victory." Not that she doesn't support cutting taxes, Hughes explains now, but it's a mistake for Republicans to focus on such a "polarizing issue" while giving short shrift to "other big-picture needs." Rather than accept being labeled a moderate, Hughes prefers to say she brings "a mom's perspective to the White House, a sense of practicality." When she was on the job full time, says a former West Wing colleague, "you didn't need to focus-group...