Word: second-class
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...core countries don't face voter ire about unrestrained immigration. Ludek Zahradnícek, a Czech official in charge of selling enlargement, realizes his compatriots "take this as discrimination and it could be understood this way." His counterargument: "At least 25% subsidies are better than zero subsidies." But second-class status still rankles. And then there's a problem that frustrates the E.U.'s founders too: the remoteness and impenetrability of its institutions. Few E.U. detractors go so far as Uno Silberg, an Estonian who keeps a fanciful list of 22 reasons why the E.U. is like the Soviet Union...
...insiders accuse Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (Z.A.N.U.-P.F.) of using food as a political weapon--giving it to card-carrying Z.A.N.U.-P.F. supporters and denying it to M.D.C. members. "If you cannot prove you are a member of Z.A.N.U.-P.F., you are a second-class citizen," says M.D.C. spokesman Renson Gasela. The government denies this...
...longer a Catholic. I was a sinner--that much I knew. But the church, I was taught, was for sinners, not saints. And for all its many faults, I still trusted the church, revered it. Even when it inflicted real pain, when it callously treated women as second-class Catholics, when it wounded good people in bad marriages, when it penetrated into the souls of young gay kids and made them hate themselves, I knew that it was a human institution on a divine mission. Human institutions fail. But, I reminded myself, they can also change...
Athletes at Harvard have always been treated like second-class citizens by the administration and faculty, all the way down to the non-athletic student body. How many times have the Harvard athletes overheard classmates mutter “Oh, he just got admitted to the College because he plays football” or “Look at the dumb jocks grazing like cattle” as they congregate together in the dining hall...
...There's more than revenue growth at stake. There's national pride. Japan's prolonged recession threatens to relegate the country to second-class status among industrialized nations. By selling its i-mode and 3G know-how overseas, DoCoMo hopes to spread the mobile Internet?seeding the market for homegrown Japanese technology and boosting the country's status as an info-age innovator. "With DoCoMo and i-mode, you've got a global brand recognition and excitement over a new product that you haven't seen since the Sony Walkman," says Kirk Boodry, telecom analyst for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein...