There is also more parity between the sexes, in terms of wages, again leading to increased individual independence.

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On the other hand, fees income gave individual universities more independence.

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Now there is a real chance to make serious changes: to improve the voting system, to lessen the power of party hacks and to return an element of independence to individual MPs.

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Since independence, the individual Central Asian states have made different political and economic choices which have meant that the contrasts between them are now quite striking.

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For instance, Westby Fisher, a widely followed electrophysiologist and blogger, mourns that House-like independence will disappear from medicine as individual practices merge into large groups.

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And at some juncture, individual Democratic candidates may want to show as much independence as possible.

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