Some respondents rejected complicated instructions in favor of a medication schedule they could achieve.
Among the nobility, the game was so popular that royal families worried that princes neglected their instruction as knights in favor of long hours on the tennis court.
Over the years schools have reduced physical education and recess time in favor of more academic instruction.
Chicago's moves are consistent with the views of many education experts who advise against holding back students in favor of individualized instruction and intensive remediation while keeping children in class with others of their same age.
With Itanium 2, Intel is walking away from the x86 instruction set, which has been at the core of every Intel PC microprocessor since the 1980s, in favor of a new instruction set called EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing) created by Hewlett-Packard.
At the time, Intel and its development partner Hewlett-Packard were shaking the world of chip engineering by dumping its x86 legacy in favor of a new instruction set known as Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing, or EPIC, for the 64-bit server chip now known as Itanium.
It was not even a rule change, but an instruction to referees to shift interpretation in favor of the attacking team at tackles, that brought the transformation that left South Africa behind this year.
Re "Anatomy Lessons, a Vanishing Rite for Young Doctors" (March 23): The article is correct that few professionals would encourage the abandonment of hands-on dissection in favor of computer-based instruction.
So when she sent her 5-year-old son to school last September, she shunned a bilingual program, in which instruction is initially given mostly in the native language, in favor of E.S.L. classes, where teachers instruct immigrants in English.
Some scholars have argued in favor of more nuanced instructions — for instance, allowing an incident to be defined as discrimination even if the people involved didn't realize they were discriminating, or allowing that discrimination might have affected an H.R. decision even if other non-discriminatory factors also played a role.
