Inequality has widened, one in eight people still go to bed hungry and climate change threatens everything we have achieved since the 1960s.
When Caliban and Ariel regain possession of the island, in an epilogue to Shakespeare, Prospero's chains of intervals recur, except that the claustrophobic semitone has widened one degree and the cycle moves not down but up.
The recent weakness in the euro and the yen may be a sign that those regions are exporting deflation to the rest of the world, as their exporters cut prices to seize market share.Deflation can cause severe pain in the corporate sector; a further sign of trouble is that the spread (or excess interest rate) paid by the riskiest bond issuers has widened by one-and-a-half percentage points since June.
Meanwhile, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened since 1994, creating one of the world's most unequal societies, according to World Bank data.
Chinese respondents voiced concern about official corruption, air and water pollution, food and pharmaceutical safety, and a yawning wealth gap, which, since the country emerged from communism in the late 1970s, has widened to become one of the world's worst.
They have also become more concentrated in safe Conservative seats, where they are of no use to Mr Miliband's lot.Most of all, Labour notes that the gap between Tory voters and left-of-centre ones has widened.
The figure below shows that costs have come down for all systems, regardless of size, but the gap between the cost per watt of large systems and small ones has widened.
Smithers explains this as follows: Having narrowed a little since 2000 it has widened again as English was one of the few subjects in 2009 to adopt 60percentnt controlled assessment (coursework under standard conditions).
This should not be surprising, argue Benjamin I. Page, Jason Seawright, and Matthew J. Lacombe: As the gap between the wealthiest and the rest of us has widened, the few who hold one billion dollars or more in net worth have begun to play a more and more active part in politics--with serious consequences for democracy in the United States.
The pay gap between men and women in London has widened from 10%to13%3% and absolutely no-one should be surprised.
Sanders has widened the gap with Clinton by 3 points from one month ago.
