Word: woefulness
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...Math and Science Study (TIMSS), commissioned by the National Science Foundation, will present a litany of unsettling findings on the quality of American public schooling compared with that of the rest of the world. One conclusion: the deficiency of America's average students is a major reason for the woeful U.S. performance in the TIMSS exams. Too many schools, the report says, "have sacrificed the attainments of more average students in an attempt to bolster the performance of better students." As a result, American eighth- and 12th-graders on the whole lag below the international average in math...
...said, there are reasons to invest in the wonder-drug business. A potential huge payoff certainly is one. Last July, MedImmune's infant-pneumonia drug, Synagis, passed a significant clinical hurdle, and the stock shot from $15 to $55. More fundamentally, though, biotech stocks as a group have been woeful laggards for three years, and may represent the broadest base of value in today's sky-high stock market...
Harvard started the weekend exactly as it had expected--going right after the woeful Quakers. Behind a complete-game two hitter from Cupp, Penn's offense really had no chance. And with its defense committing four errors, Penn sealed its own fate...
...going to work, it must be a job. Working parents of toddlers have little time or energy to indulge teenage naivete. It's all they can do to stay one step ahead of their own youngsters. Au pair agencies recognize the disconnect but do a woeful job reconciling it. Little wonder. If everyone involved understood one another, the programs might dissolve from lack of interest on both sides...
...energetic writer, however, this has always seemed a woeful waste of criminal talent. For some three decades Donald E. Westlake has operated a kind of literary halfway house for the morally rotten, propping up an entire repertory company of safecrackers, bank robbers, funny-money artists and miscellaneous boodlers after their inevitable job-related mishaps and sending them forth to steal again in novel after novel. His best-known wrongdoer is an amusing burglar named Dortmunder, whose fumble-thumbed approach to grand larceny is that of a tax accountant trying to bolt together a backyard barbecue. The unstated, slyly effective joke...