• If there were quotas or other forms of positive discrimination for women, argue the overwhelmingly male senators, there would soon have to be the same for other groups Muslims, homosexuals, the poor, and so on.

    ECONOMIST: France

  • Meanwhile she makes riches out of everything to hand: from the life of the village, its craftsmen and labourers, to the poor weavers of nearby Carlisle, and so on out to the world of books and literary and philosophical societies, all set against the Cumbrian landscape with its Celtic and Roman remains and discoveries of an even stranger fossilised past.

    ECONOMIST: The surprising story of a north country architect

  • Which is an outrage, an attack on the State, depriving the poor of their welfare funded bread and so on.

    FORBES: If Starbucks Makes Losses In The UK Then Why The Demand It Pays Profit Taxes?

  • Both also remain poor and heavily dependent on aid, so donors have considerable leverage.

    ECONOMIST: Uganda and Rwanda

  • This is intended to relieve the tax burden on the poor, and so to encourage people to move into work.

    ECONOMIST: Welfare reform

  • Rob Arnott, chairman of Research Affiliates, says small caps look more expensive than large caps on some measures and less so on others, but considers both to offer poor value.

    WSJ: Upside: The Small-Cap Stock Trap

  • The one big exception is China, which decarbonised at 5.8% per year during the 1990s, although it started from the standpoint of very poor fuel effiency and massive reliance on coal, so could be said to be plucking "low-hanging fruit".

    BBC: Dirty secrets: What's behind carbon's rise?

  • Beatty and Gallina discovered that many veterans struggle with poor credit, so by making affordable payments on a mortgage, they are able to improve their credit score and build equity.

    CNN: Making life easier for disabled veterans

  • The findings of those statisticians' successors that poor children are more likely to fail at school, poor adults to commit crimes and die young, and so on are nowadays uncontroversial.

    ECONOMIST: Social inequality: Always with us? | The

  • It's not as poor as countries like Somalia or Rwanda or so on, and it may be some time before it hits the complete bottom.

    NPR: Examining the Political Climate in Zimbabwe

  • The states could then provide federal assistance to the poor to purchase the private health insurance of their choice, freeing them from the Medicaid ghetto that so badly underpays doctors and hospitals that the poor on Medicaid suffer trouble in finding essential care.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And studies have already documented that Medicaid does not pay enough for the poor on the program to get timely and effective health care, and so they suffer worse health outcomes as a result, including premature death.

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  • So social safety net policies to protect the poor from deprivation and want are justified on these grounds, as indicated at the outset.

    FORBES: Policies Meant To Achieve Equality Are Very Unfair To The Least Equal

  • Poor sleeping patterns are both a symptom of bipolar disorder and can bring the illness on, so learning good sleep hygiene is especially important for young people at genetic risk for the disease.

    CNN: Can a person 'discourage' bipolar disorder?

  • "There is no excuse for mistakes or poor management at polling sites, and so we are asking all New Yorkers to report any problems they experience on Election Day, " he said.

    WSJ: New York City Mayor Blomberg Urges Voters to Call, Tweet Problems at Polls

  • But keeping these debts on their books, and so continuing to favour existing long-term but often poor-risk customers, is choking off bank credit to those firms which could actually make good use of it.

    ECONOMIST: Jump-starting Japan | The

  • So long as the final tab for decontamination, decommissioning and compensation remains uncertain, so will the question of who pays but count on the poor public being hit either with higher taxes or with higher electricity bills.

    ECONOMIST: A troubled utility is to be as good as nationalised

  • Managers are invariably Japanese and are promoted on the basis of seniority rather than merit, so prospects for local staff are poor. (Chinese executives joke that if you want to learn about communism, work for a Japanese firm.) Worse, Japanese companies are used to dealing with a few long-standing partners.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese companies in China

  • "The challenge is that the interface on a cell phone is so poor that anything you can do to reduce the number of keystrokes and the number of menus is a plus, " Parr said.

    CNN: Excite launches mobile Web portal

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