Such anemic growth perpetuates the continent's skewed distribution of income, with the wealthiest 10 percent of Latin Americans controlling 40 percent of the region's income and the poorest 30 percent accounting for less than 10 percent of it.
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But most forms show no such direct expressions; for them, Edgerton noted sharply skewed distributions that he interpreted as evidence for a lost alternation between syllabic and nonsyllabic consonants ( commonly called " semivowels " in the literature ).
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It is this kind of skewed distribution of wealth that is mobilizing a growing grass-roots campaign to find ways _ by raising the minimum wage, revamping the tax code, among others _ to create a more equitable economic system.
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Brazil's skewed distribution of land underlies the chronic rural violence _ nearly 1, 000 landless peasants and their leaders have been murdered in the past decade _ according to the Pastoral Land Commission, a Roman Catholic human rights group.
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However, cuts in social spending in such areas, as health, education, agrarian reform, low income housing and projects to help the drought-stricken northeast, threaten to jeopardize his promise to improve Brazil's skewed distribution of wealth, already considered the world's worst.
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In response to the suggestion that the strongly skewed distribution of edits might just be due to a core set of editors who primarily make only minor formatting modifications, they looked at the net number of characters contributed by each editor.
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Subject Tests are subject to intensive study ( often in the form of an AP, which is relatively more difficult ), and only those who know they will perform well tend to take these tests, creating a skewed distribution of scores.
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Instead, he has focused on such social issues as rising unemployment _ officially 8 percent but critics say its twice that _ and lack of political will to significantly change the nation's skewed distribution of wealth, one of the world's worst.
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They charge his economic policies, which have brought inflation from 50 percent a month to 7 percent annually, has led to a dramatic rise in unemployment and has not significantly changed the country's skewed distribution of wealth, one of the world's worst.
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However the mean and standard deviation are fairly reliable . " Therefore, the problem is for the case of four parameter estimation for very skewed distributions such that the excess kurtosis approaches ( 3 / 2 ) times the square of the skewness.
