Word: systemically
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Some EC members had expressed concerns about the voting process in the hours after the tabulation, according to EC member and UC representative Phillip Morris ’12, who added that there were “loopholes” in the electronic voting system that could have allowed an outside party to access—and possibly tamper with—the results of the election...
...second hypothesis, which Subramanian finds “more intriguing,” is that in unequal societies the “psychosocial stress” of competition may negatively impact cardiovascular health and the immune system...
...Bushehr won't go online by its December 2009 deadline. (The reactor was first scheduled to begin producing electricity in the year 2000, and has been delayed five times since then.) Moscow has further annoyed Tehran by stalling on the delivery of the sophisticated S-300 air defense system ordered by Iran, whose deployment would make life difficult for any air force to attack the Islamic Republic. (See pictures of IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei...
...scandals have sent the country's top cops into damage control mode and intensified calls for an overhaul of Russia's profoundly broken law enforcement system. In late October, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev announced a series of measures aimed at combating graft and weeding out officers prone to violent abuses. The measures include tightening psychological screening standards for new hires, improving transparency when dealing with the media and forcing police officers and their relatives to submit copies of their tax papers in order to keep tabs on any assets gained in illicit ways. "Every day I ride to work...
...Until the Kremlin finds the money to overhaul the system completely, Vyshenkov says a few cheap measures could help matters. For one, police officers should be required to wear uniforms embossed with the motto: "I selflessly serve the law." "It's not going to deter all officers from corruption," he says. "But maybe it will make three out of 100 embarrassed to take a bribe...