disparity
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The announcement comes weeks after the California attorney general opened a civil rights probe into the county’s fire preparations and response, focusing on potential disparities in historically Black west Altadena.
From Los Angeles Times
The disparity raises a red flag, said New York University professor Anna Harvey, who noted that 60% to 70% of crime isn’t reported to police.
"However, the disparity is too much. The draft structure was clearly far better from an overall player standpoint. As players we did feed this back."
From BBC
The risk is that overtaking will be both more difficult, between cars with similar energy levels, and also ridiculously easy, between those with a large energy disparity.
From BBC
When it comes to gender, the disparities were even more glaring.
From Los Angeles Times
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