Word: unevennesses
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...oldest complaints against medical research is the uneven way the money is divided. Some diseases that kill relatively few people (e.g., polio) have been using up far more research money per case than such common ailments as heart disease and cancer...
...Hoover plan put more heat under the U.S. public's rising temper over shortages. Still more heat came from the governors of 13 northeastern states. Lashing out at the uneven distribution which breeds black markets, they recommended that: 1) OPA's rationing system be overhauled, and separate points be issued for meat; 2) OPA concentrate on food controls "rather than enforcing ceilings on cocktails and fur coats...
...Morgan's biography, put together over ten years with the aid of several collaborators, is fact-packed and scholarly. Unfortunately, it is also uneven and undigested. It fails to synthesize the social philosophy which Bellamy scattered through many an article and book. But, until a better biography is written, thoughtful readers will value it for rescuing a fertile U.S. thinker from his half-forgotten reputation as a one-book...
Wescott's second novel in 18 years will disappoint readers who remember the youthful vitality of The Grandmothers (1927). The story of a bullying Nazi officer who moves in on a family in Athens (which Wescott has never visited), it is an uneven, over-literary tour de force, interesting chiefly for its suggestion that some liberated Europeans may, for a time, feel rather lost without their brutal conquerors...
...Distribution of doctors is uneven (poor communities have only one-eighth as many as middle-class ones...