Word: unevennesses
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...results are a little more uneven on Sunday, when about 10 steelers take turns on the bandstand, but the best among them are pretty intimidating. They're all in a different universe of skill than the one I inhabit, of course, but the levels that separate me from the lowliest of these guys are the same as those separating them from the likes of Jernigan, whose solo set I stick around for before heading home. He opens with the bebop standard "Jordu," effectively blowing away about 99 percent of the field, then satisfies the country contingent's needs with terrifying...
...know we've just begun. The road is uneven," says Principal Paula M. Evans...
...addition, the income tax is already progressive; excise and payroll taxes, which the Bush plan does not address, generally represent a much greater burden for the poor. The result is that Bush's plan, according to an analysis by the left-leaning Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ), is highly uneven. While the poorest fifth of Americans will see their tax rates fall only by a little more than five percent and the middle fifth by seven percent, the top one percent of taxpayers will find their tax burden dropping by 13.6 percent--nearly twice as much as the middle class...
...still a surprise, for people used to the immaculate technical refinement of Sevres or Wedgwood, to see the lack of finish of Koetsu tea bowls. Slumped, pitted, cratered, they seem to preserve the primal character of the earth from which they're made. They're so uneven that you'd think they'd wobble if set on a table. Instead of pattern or fine painting, their surfaces are all drips and cracks that, contemplated in the dim natural light of the teahouse, may suggest large natural events. One of the most beautiful bowls in this show, black glaze...
Since the collapse of Communism, capitalism has had an uneven triumph in the republics of Central and Eastern Europe. In the Czech Republic, which became an independent nation in 1993 after Slovakia broke away, not much changed for years, despite partial privatization of state enterprises. State-owned banks, very slow to privatize, doled out credit without much supervision, and old-fashioned state enterprises dominated the wheezing economy. One result: a three-year contraction of GDP from 1997 through...