Word: unevennesses
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...farmers are divorced from market feedback and often must wait months to be paid. Many farmers routinely go into debt to the very traders who buy their produce and then sell them seeds and fertilizers for the next crop. Customers, meantime, had little choice but to accept food of uneven quality and unreliable supply. "Something that was designed to protect farmers and consumers ended up hurting them," says Mukherjee...
...European countries, for example, such weak and uneven expectations aren't a problem because most have a uniform national curriculum and national tests. But that approach has been politically unacceptable in the U.S., where schools are largely funded and controlled at the state and local levels. Besides, says Spellings, "do you really want me sitting in Washington working on how we teach evolution or creationism? I don't want...
...performance was the stellar fuete turn sequence during the finale—which was otherwise a bit lackluster, most likely due to a tired cast. At this point in the night, the dancers in the finale did not fully finish their steps and their lines became a bit uneven...
Smith was the only one, too, in Jamestown's first fragile years, with the ability to impose order and direction upon the bold but uneven and quarrelsome crowd that journeyed in leaking wooden boats to the far side of the world to claw out an English beachhead. "His mixture of great white father and avenging god superbly achieved what he wanted--a food supply," wrote Barbour. With the colony's survival hanging in the balance, "other questions were academic...
...this June, the law appears on first glance reassuringly similar to legislation in the U.S., laying out complex provisions under which companies (but not individuals) can file for bankruptcy, procedures to be followed, rights of creditors etc. But with the application of the law dependent on China's notoriously uneven legal system - where corruption allegations are widespread and judicial independence rare - some experts say it remains a token half-measure...