Track and field, a poor stepchild, offers occasional prize money, but invitation meets have traditionally lured athletes with appearance fees.

He added that making matters harder was the fact that American music was a poor stepchild in mainstream musicology.

Many residents believe the city has been slow to act, she said, because Brooklyn's status at City Hall is as a "poor stepchild."

The Muslims got Sarajevo and an international commitment to arm them, they say, adding that their own region is being treated like a poor stepchild.

Next to Haiti, the west coast of Nicaragua is the poorest stepchild of the Western Hemisphere.

"It has been a poor stepchild," said a spokesman for Mr. Aspin.

"Ivan" is the poor stepchild among Prokofiev's film scores.

But at the moment, Portuguese food is the poor stepchild of Western Europe.

Opera is the dominant form today, and melodrama seems but a poor stepchild.

"Poetry is often treated as a poor stepchild of literature that needs to have its head patted."