This seems like this is one of those issues where every solution has an equal and opposite damaging effect.

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Enable families of people missing presumed dead to get a certificate to that effect, with equal legal force to an ordinary death certificate.

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It will, all other things being equal, reach its destination with devastating effect.

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The fact that it is a largely cosmetic exercise is borne out by the fact that, in trying to claim that all members of the new House will be equal, the report says that, in effect, the number of elected members is so small that they will not make much difference to outcomes.

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In this view, common in Paris, Berlin and Brussels, the crisis may have a beneficial side-effect if it makes America seek more equal relations with its European allies.

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Or how about the Mass Effect series, which has a near-equal mix of male-female characters on the roster and even allows the player to be a female commander Shepard?

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Meanwhile, tax increases and spending cuts equal to 5% of GDP a year are programmed to take effect around December 31st.

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Aristocrats feared gin's corrosive effect on the social hierarchy: Might not a drunken millwright someday fancy himself equal to a drunken lord of the manor?

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And the poverty has as much of a significant effect upon the educational performance and upon the ability of a poor school district already to deliver an equal educational opportunity.

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