For example, readers with low working memory and low prior knowledge were usually disadvantaged in hypertext.
Despite decreasing blood lead (PbB) levels, there are groups, usually disadvantaged, still at risk of lead exposure, such as children living in older, deteriorating housing and who have elevated PbB concentrations (Clark et al. 1985; Lanphear et al. 2002).
For example, the disadvantaged can benefit from having a more diverse network by accessing information and influence through ties with the more advantaged, thereby accessing resources that are usually unavailable to disadvantaged groups.
(When the good characters are adolescents or adults, they are usually in some way disadvantaged, though often temporarily).
(When the good characters are adolescents or adults, they are usually in some way disadvantaged, though often temporarily). These heroes win through moral rather than physical strength, because they possess the standard folk-tale qualities of intelligence, courage, kindness and luck.
Lower breast cancer survival rates among the disadvantaged are usually attributed to advanced stage at presentation, but also to suboptimal access to adequate treatment.
These categories are usually a shorthand for disadvantaged children, many of whose parents will be on low pay or on benefits, or at least will have been in the past six years.
Although these trials are usually intended to benefit disadvantaged children, they raise uncomfortable questions about why an affluent society allows children to live in substandard housing or hazardous environments.
In financial affairs and dealings with the state, those in the precariat are disadvantaged since they are usually less well-informed and have to do much more to satisfy demands made on them if they want to gain meagre state benefits.
In "Waiting for a School Miracle" (Op-Ed, June 1), Diane Ravitch rightly points out that the quick-fix "miracles" that seem to dramatically improve learning for the most disadvantaged students are usually mirages, not miracles.
