Many of the Gates foundation's critics concede that the organisation is, as Edwards puts it, "closer to the best than the worst" on the spectrum of private charitable foundations: more expertly staffed, more focused on the problems where charity is most needed, more professional – there have so far been no obviously disastrous foundation-funded projects – and more prepared to change as it grows.
The authors acknowledge that while they tried to use a representative sample of manufacturers' claims, it is possible that the products they analyzed were "at the worst end of the spectrum," and they concede that given more time, some of the companies may have been able to provide more references.
However, this conventional policy does not take the overall throughput performance into consideration so that a situation may result where all operators have equal zero payoffs, which is the worst case from the spectrum availability point of view.
At the worst end of the spectrum is Chicago.
"When we find chronically underfunded, indigent defense systems, kids are often at the worst end of that spectrum, because they are often the most neglected category of folks in these public defense systems," she said.
We attempted to identify a representative sample of products, but it is possible the products we analysed are at the worst end of the spectrum.
Behind Pynchon's vast fictional panoply, behind the excess knowledge relentlessly peddled, you see something less than godlike: a set of urban liberal whines, about Rudy Giuliani's mayoralty, "yups" (yuppies) colonising Manhattan, and the Disneyfication of Times Square; along with political thinking that, at best, occupies "the woowoo end of the spectrum" and at worst seems downright adolescent.
On the other side of the spectrum, our 10 worst banks share some common themes.
First, the method based on Fourier spectrum analysis provides worst estimates as during the evolution of the mean sarcomere length smooth plateaus appear.
It was a known fact: Afghans and Pakistanis were probably the worst suicide bombers in the entire spectrum of militants".
