Laying down a marker for the incoming administration and the new Congress in his own final days in office, President Clinton today called for enactment of a sweeping set of proposals aimed at racial reconciliation and lessening disparities between whites and minorities.
"Our study demonstrates the potential of Medicaid expansions for low-income adults to lessen disparities in the receipt of well-child visits among their children.
Thornton: I remember, as a 23-year-old barrister, putting on that wig definitely lessened the disparity of being opposite a 55-year-old guy in a pin-striped suit.
Filmmakers previously added another new character to their live-action remake — Mara, a handmaiden and friend to Jasmine — but that didn't draw much negative attention, probably because the original "Aladdin" only had one notable female character, so adding another would help lessen that disparity.
Lessening income disparity should be the primary focus of our government to address the affordable housing crisis.
The issues we need to be addressing as a society are affordable housing and lessening income disparity.
But they did suggest steps that women, employers and the government could take to lessen the disparity.
The analyzed values of water quality parameters tested have been standardized (using the mean and standard deviation values) to lessen the disparity in range of the quantitative values of each parameter.
An intervention to prevent or lessen length disparity can be to perform an epiphysiodesis on the distal femoral and proximal tibial/fibular condyles, so that limb's growth is artificially stunted, and by the time of epiphyseal (growth) plate closure, the legs are more equal in length.
According to the results depicted in Table 3 and 4, this study suggests that individual behavioural factors might lessen social disparity in oral hygiene status and OHRQoL among adolescents but do not seem to remove it completely.
The seven judges and one law professor who form the commission are considering changes to lessen the disparities.
