Up-front schema design is a poor fit in a world where data requirements are fluid.

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He argues that Reynolds's strengths, such as its aluminium foil business, make a poor fit with Alcoa, which has no consumer brands itself.

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Mr Brands's challenge is greater here, for Jackson is an ambiguous figure and the book's muscular and enthusiastic tone is sometimes a poor fit with its subject.

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"Even now I'm starting to feel guilty that I'm so fit when there are poor people in hospital, " he added.

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In the developing world they do it because that is often the only water fit to drink, and for the poor it is usually a significant expense.

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Poor Amy Winehouse doesn't really look in any fit state to.

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Ryan recommended ending Medicare, the government health-insurance program for retirees, and replacing it with a system of direct payments to seniors, who could then buy private insurance. (The change would not affect current beneficiaries or the next decade of new ones.) He proposed ending Medicaid, the health-care program for the poor, and replacing it with a lump sum for states to use as they saw fit.

NEWYORKER: Fussbudget

Studies of the blowout preventer's two control pods suggest that a flattish battery and a dodgy valve meant that neither was in a fit state to close off the well automatically when they should have, which BP takes as evidence of poor maintenance by Transocean.

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