Importing American-style affirmative action risks forcing Brazilians to place themselves in strict racial categories rather than somewhere along a spectrum, says Peter Fry, a British-born, naturalised-Brazilian anthropologist.
So much the better, one might think, for Jewish-Christian dialogue: it might even be argued that the two faiths were points on a spectrum rather than opposite poles.
Improvements over the past year in getting little solid-state lasers to operate more reliably at the blue, rather than red, end of the spectrum means vastly more data can be crammed on to the 12cm platter.
The result is a spectrum of skin colour rather than a dichotomy.
It would also mean that any unavoidable measurement error has a similar impact along the whole spectrum of marks, rather than being concentrated around grade boundaries.
It's more about the will rather than philosophy where you are in the political spectrum to solve issues.
It gives a graphic representation to the idea that, rather than being at a different end of a spectrum from a structured state, disorder is at the very center of things, with ordered and un-ordered states around it.
Now you might think this is just Hutton being insufficiently reflective rather than closer to the Einstein comment end of the spectrum.
Multiple conversations can occur at the same time because of more efficient use of spectrum and the allocation of channels based upon demand rather than pre-existing arbitrary assignment.
But these auctions were relatively rare and governments often asked that the spectrum be put to a specific use, such as serving rural areas, rather than just to lighten the load on the busiest parts of a network.
Given that the primary system gives particular influence to party activists who are usually on the extreme end of the political spectrum, potential candidates are forced to think about how their decisions will play to them rather than moderates.
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