Word: sub-standard
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...Some families of the 152 victims, 66 of them French nationals, claim their relatives died as a result of sub-standard practices the airline uses once it's beyond the view of European inspectors (Efforts to contact Yemenia officials for comment this week were unsuccessful). The modern Airbus A330 that Yemenia flies from Paris to Sanaa in Yemen, they charge, was systematically swapped for an aging A310 for the final leg to Comoros' capital Moroni. Meanwhile, Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau pointed out that the A310 that crashed Tuesday had been banned in France since 2007 after failing security checks...
...danger, or the pregnancy is a result of rape or incest. The Center for American Progress reports that in 2001, the number of federally or state-funded Medicaid abortions was 81. Furthermore, 70,000 women a year die from abortion procedures around the world because of faulty and sub-standard medical conditions according to a 2006 International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics report. The political infrastructure in place in America currently does not adequately allow women from lower-income households to have equal access to abortions as their wealthier counterparts. The consequences of such measures include later-term abortions...
...does Habiba deal with National Front policies demanding a halt to the same immigration that brought her parents here. "Until we have the means to offer every citizen a good life, we can't continue allowing foreigners in, where they, too, will live sub-standard lives," she explains. "Is it more humane to let them keep coming to live disadvantaged lives in segregated ghettoes, where they'll feel the hostility against immigrants every day? Or is it is better to tell them they're better off at home?" The answer may depend on which side of the immigration divide...
...positive things in the match.” Meltzer and No. 9 Louis Caputo, a sophomore, contributed the remaining two Crimson wins by 3-2 and 6-0 scores. Yet Meltzer still classified most of the team’s wins, including his own, as sub-standard performances. “The team as a whole, even the guys who were winning, didn’t necessarily look that great,” Meltzer said. “We can’t pinpoint the guys who gave up those falls. As a team, we take responsibility for each...
...Some people thought he was really sub-standard and really didn’t belong there at all. Most thought he was an average student,” says Martin Kahn...