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...more than anything else our society needs that outrage. Residents of neighborhoods with high levels of violence need to become angry with the criminals perpetuating it. Middle-class America needs to get mad at the nightly pictures of shootings in poorer neighborhoods. Politicians and leaders need to be angry that our society can often no longer protect its citizens...
Fitzsimmons acknowledges that studies on the SAT show that certain ethnic groups and students of poorer socio-economic background have a pattern of lower average scores...
...easy to see how a pact of that sort may damage Japan. If Japan simply removes trade barriers, its own producers may lose business. If the Japanese government compels importers to purchase American goods, then Japan's consumers may have to pay more, or make do with poorer quality goods. It is also easy to see why third parties, such as exporters in Europe or Asia, may suffer. But as long as the policy of demanding with menaces works--so long as American exports increase--how can America be the victim...
...state regulators and small bottlers favor the traditional geological definition, which has been adopted by North Carolina and several other states: water that flows naturally to the earth's surface and is drawn off there. Water sucked up through layers of earth via boreholes, they contend, may be of poorer quality because it can contain impurities...
...system produces lustrous mini-campuses in the most fortunate suburbs, scuffed and gloomy warehouses in the ghettos and maximum insecurity almost everywhere. Poorer districts are so desperate that 41 states have faced lawsuits challenging the statewide school finance formula, all with the goal of getting courts to compel legislatures to adopt a more equitable sharing of tax revenues. Under court pressure, Kentucky has developed a package of taxes to help fund education. In May Texas voters will be asked to approve a redistribution of property taxes...