The formula was reverse engineered to make sure it covered the states with the worst records of discrimination.
TOKYO — Among democracies in the developed world, Japan has one of the worst records of putting women in positions of political power.
Alabama, for example, at the time of a 1988 lawsuit, had one of the worst records of protecting children and preserving families.
Roosevelt, located in a community with high unemployment and crushing poverty, recently had one of the worst records of any school in the state, with 80 percent of its seventh graders testing below grade level in reading and math.
Illinois has tried mightily to deal with a system of capital punishment that had, as The Chicago Tribune described it, "one of the worst records of wrongful capital convictions in the country".
Spreads on Italian and Greek debt over German bunds have widened sharply.Dear Prudence, you are needed in RomeWith luck this should focus attention on governments with the worst records of reform, control of public finances and competitiveness.
