Word: particularity
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With so many countries doing all they can to lure the rich, Britain's decision to get tough on tax breaks seems either brave or crazy. The government's gamble is that London, in particular, has so much else to offer its nondoms - a leading position in financial services, world-class culture, easy access to Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East - that most will stay and pay. But at a time when the economy is already showing signs of wear and tear, there's clearly a danger that the foreign rich will pack up and take their fat wallets...
...Science Center that shut down the FAS computer system for several hours, according to Selsby. Zittrain, who is also a professor at Oxford University in England, said that the e-mails were not necessarily the work of someone looking to break into Harvard’s network in particular. He added that he received two copies of the recent phishing e-mails—one in his Harvard inbox, and one at his Oxford account...
...Effective liberty,” he argued in his book “Liberalism and Social Action,” “is a function of the social conditions existing at any time” that “signifies release from the impact of particular oppressive forces...
...Democrats—particularly young ones—need to embrace this mantle, and embrace it fully, both following its precepts and arguing for them. As Dewey wrote in “The Public and Its Problems,” “Thinking and beliefs should be experimental, not absolutistic.” The basis for social policy then becomes not a matter of sound-byte ideals, but a matter of establishing concrete correlations of cause and effect that depend on the particular and complicated history of each problem...
...while the details of this particular case are appalling, and the scam is the first - or at least first to be exposed - involving foreigners from as far away as the U.S. and U.K flying in for transplants, Indians are sadly all too familiar with organ rackets. In 2007, police in southern India uncovered an illegal kidney trade involving fishermen whose jobs had been destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami. A massive transplant ring in Punjab was also uncovered in 2003. Police there believe at least 30 of the donors, who as in this latest case were poor, illiterate workers promised...