No matter how busy, I seem to find plenty of time to feel bad about shortchanging my children, husband, parents, household and/or work commitments.

The shortchanging seems particularly egregious since the city can make a good case for more than an equitable numerical share of state funds.

She was afraid that she would be shortchanging her duties as a wife and mother, but her husband kept encouraging her.

As the House and Senate rush toward a long election recess, they are in danger of shortchanging an important foreign aid program dealing with family planning.

The White House vows that in coming budget initiatives there will be no shortchanging of the nation's duty to face the facts of the tragedy.

Despite the Education Department's positive statements about these measures, administrators and parents are distressed about changes that they feel are shortchanging children.

"The reason is pretty obvious: It's the state's shameless shortchanging of our city's children out of the billions of dollars we need for capital school funding."

Last week, the Board of Education was accused of shortchanging minority group students under a decade-old policy aimed at making public schools more attractive to whites.

But he muddies this good move by shortchanging schools and mass transit, and then allocating $128 million for an unnecessary new prison kitchen in the Bronx.

The public libraries ("Shortchanging Libraries," editorial, Feb. 25) play a vital role in our existence.

What these facts translate to is the continued shortchanging of America's girls and, consequently, the shortchanging of America.

Mr. Clinton repeatedly looked into the lens and excoriated Republican leaders, accusing them of dragging out the budget process and shortchanging American children.

The cluster plan appears politically unstoppable, Ms. McKinnis said, adding that she hoped the city would not fall back into its old habits of shortchanging minority children.

Elaine Kamarck, a policy adviser to Mr. Gore, said, "The shortchanging of Medicare is, I think, a huge problem with the Bradley plan."

Chief among those flaws is the Republicans' unconscionable $6-billion-plus shortchanging of the Leave No Child Behind education program, which President Bush used as an electoral promissory note.

A class-action lawsuit was filed by families of employees at Cantor Fitzgerald accusing Mr. Feinberg of arbitrarily shortchanging high-income victims.

I forgive Google for shortchanging me on spider hole, though I suppose if I had entered "tarantulas" the etymon would have popped up and grabbed me.

He also accused the president, and by implication Vice President Al Gore, of shortchanging the nation on military funding and by caving in on pork barrel issues.

After repeated efforts to craft a bipartisan bill, Senate Democrats accused Republicans and the White House of shortchanging public schools by billions of dollars while pushing through a huge tax cut.

Of course, the sale price could set the bar too high, perhaps leading to the very shortchanging of operational needs that older residents say provoked a downturn in the later years of the Helmsley management.

To the Editor: Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's annual report on the fiscal shortchanging of New York and other "frost belt" states is nothing but cant (news article, Oct. 8).

Program It, News Executives Say" (Business Day, Jan. 15), I fear that young adults (which includes me) are in for a tremendous shortchanging when it comes to intelligent news coverage.

The examiner found irregularities in a dozen transfers of Eastern assets to Texas Air, a shortchanging of as much as $403 million, but he agreed to accept a $280 million settlement from the parent company.

But Democrats asserted that Republican leaders were pushing through a bill - in the middle of the night - laden with giveaways to insurers and drug companies, while shortchanging the elderly Americans it was supposed to help.

Justice Leland DeGrasse of State Supreme Court in Manhattan ruled in 2001 that the state was shortchanging the city schools and ordered the governor and the Legislature to find a remedy.