Word: unevennesses
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Immigration is frequently an uneven transaction. When a scientist from India or a professor from Guatemala or a physician from the Philippines moves to the U.S., America's gain is the native land's loss. Since few American professionals head out to settle elsewhere in the world, the redistribution of talent serves only to widen the gap between the land of plenty and the lands of poverty. Worse still, the cycle tends to perpetuate itself: as more people leave their native country for the U.S., more are likely to leave, to join relatives or cash in on connections or simply...
...Crimson's season has been plagued by severe bouts with inconsistency, and its uneven play has resulted in what Coach John Thompson labels "a very average season...
Store 24 employee Jessica M. Barry agreed that the prices, were uneven, explaining that two-liter bottles are purchased at a lower rate since they are sold at such a high volume. "We do sell three-liter Cokes," said Bary, "but why people buy them I have no idea...
...changing. Noonan suggests analogies to slavery, which was once considered acceptable in most of the world, and to usury, which was once considered morally reprehensible. He cites a series of arguments claiming that morality has little relevance to corruption, that many people take bribes and that all punishments are uneven and hypocritical. Having cited these arguments, Noonan rejects them all. Bribery, he concludes (a bit sententiously), is a betrayal of the public trust necessary for society's survival. Beyond that, he sees a theological principle at work: "The imitation of God lies at the root of the bribery prohibition...
Releasing statistics will certainly discourage people from applying to certain Houses. And of course, it will not change the number of people stuck where they don't want to be. But accepting the reality those statistics show--that quality of life in the Houses is wildly uneven--is the first step toward actually starting to do something about...