Word: unevennesses
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However, Gray Sexton's story speaks for itself. On the whole, the uneven tone does little to diminish the book's message of forgiveness and survival. The memoirs competently address so many of the relevant issues of family relationships and the horrors of mental illness and abuse. What could have easily been dismissed as yet another tell-all expose by a spiteful relative is instead...
Harvard's defense, which has been uneven this season, will most likely find Cornell's offense to its liking. Cornell knows the old football adage: offense puts people in the seats, but defense wins games...
While gays have faced uneven results in the political arena, especially at the national level, they have made great strides in the seemingly less inviting world of private business. Hundreds of companies, including IBM, Eastman Kodak, Harley-Davidson, Dow Chemical, Du Pont, 3M and Time Warner, have specific policies banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Many, ranging from the Wall Street law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to the insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, provide health or other benefits for gay employees' partners. Such old-line companies as Union Carbide and Colgate-Palmolive hire consultants to teach...
Williams blamed the decentralization of Harvard's decision-making process for what she called an uneven implementation of the agreement. In particular, she claimed that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences handed out more projects on a non-union basis to employers who pay substandard wages and who do not offer benefits like health insurance and on-the-job training...
...tenuous, uneven march toward peace in the Middle East stumbled again last week. Complications at the talks and unmet deadlines were punctuated with more violence, more revenge. Within an hour of the canceled Gaza ceremony, 90 miles away in northern Israel, a 25-year-old Palestinian blew up seven Israelis in a suicide attack in the town of Afula. The killer, a member of the anti-Arafat Islamic movement Hamas, detonated his car bomb alongside an Israeli bus as passengers, many of them teenagers, were boarding. Hamas promised that the attack would be the first of five in retaliation...