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...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...
...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...
...make fiscal responsibility a priority in the 2004 campaign. We eagerly listened to the election 2000 debates on the tantalizing prospects of a budget surplus, and today youth must make their voices heard by going to the polls to make sure candidates don’t give short shrift to the alarming deficits...
Wait. Berenson’s attempts are “misplaced?” Talk about having this whole thing backwards. “Misplaced” describes the viewpoint of students who (a) have painfully little regard for history and give incredibly and foolishly short shrift to the opinion of a man who is an ambassador of his sport and (b) equate seventh-grade humor with having “one of the greatest experiences in all of athletics...