Word: unevenness
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...Clarke could not sustain this early poetry for very long. His next books were uneven, tending to lapse into long ethereal movements that seemed only a parody of Yeats and his forerunners in the symbolist tradition. These years of his life were also the most frustrating for Clarke, for after a three-year English professorship at University College Dublin, he was kicked out for marrying outside the Church. Clarke's marriage went sour all too soon, and his instability--perhaps a byproduct of the tension between his staunch Catholic upbringing and what he called his "little acts of curiosity about...
...economists and businessmen who sight an upturn are not just using their imaginations: there really are signs that the slump is braking to an uneven halt, and that the conditions for an early recovery are falling into place...
Rifkin argues that political democracy is contingent on what he calls "economic democracy." He points to the fact that one per cent of the adult population in this country owns 72 per cent of all corporate stock as a principle index of how uneven the benefits of economic organization are. Moreover, "the 200 largest business corporations also control two-thirds of all of the manufacturing assets in the U.S.," making them "each giant fiefdoms" and giving them disproportionate economic and political power. The real enemies, though, are those families--like the Mellons, who have substantial holding in ALCOA, the Mellon...
...undertaking. To a Texan it might appear presumptuous. The editors of the Atlantic Monthly, while lamely acknowledging the futility of the effort have nonetheless attempted to do just that. With the help of a number of natives and a few outsiders, they have produced in their March issue an uneven but absorbing investigation of a state the, despite the national attention it receives, remains little understood...
Relations between India and the U.S.-uneven at best in recent years-turned worse last week. Reason...