The clear alternative is for law enforcement agencies to focus on actual criminal behavior rather than solely on characteristics such as race, religion, ethnicity, or nationality.

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Real estate, as we know, the last ten years, the risk characteristics have been rather high.

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But he presents little in the way of specific prescriptions, other than to stress the importance of considering the social and political context in which technology is deployed, rather than focusing on the characteristics of the technology itself, as internet gurus tend to.

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Rather, India has many of the characteristics of Brazil or Indonesia--getting ahead but not fast enough to suit the most ambitious.

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The debate regarding the trade-off between a global and a local strategy is misplaced because it views value propositions crossing national borders as products per se rather than as bundles of global and local characteristics.

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The spray-paint and burnt-tire aromas are the characteristics that I particularly hated (or, rather, objected to).

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In turn, that suggests that racial characteristics are operating merely as badges of convenience, rather than pressing deep, biologically determined buttons of discrimination.

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Rather, it pairs well with food, expresses purity, floral characteristics and, of course, the mineral aspect of the soil.

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