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  • Dispersing exposed populations has some logic but is impractical.

    Joplin's Tornado 2011

  • Dispersing the oil lower into the water column protects beaches, but also keeps it in cooler waters where oil does not break down as fast.

    Gulf Oil Spill: Massive Underwater Plumes Spell Disaster, Scientists Say 2010

  • Dispersing oil is not the same as making it disappear.

    Michael Brune: Not So Fast 2010

  • Dispersing oil is not the same as making it disappear.

    Michael Brune: Not So Fast 2010

  • Dispersing throughout mainstream society as an individual of a race still experiencing significant inequality is the formula for more of the same.

    John O'Kane: Unmelting Pot 2010

  • Dispersing some administrative aspects at first glance have a feel-good quality about them, but accomplishing this would, in the short term, be disruptive and messy.

    Outlook: Breaking up Washington 2010

  • Dispersing young male lynx are vulnerable to road kills: four lynx were killed in March 2002 alone.

    Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

  • Dispersing and dispossessing hundreds of such teachers in Chicago, and tens of thousands nationally of their livelihoods and agency in mid-career will be a severe blow to African American communities across the country.

    Black Agenda Report: Obama Administration Sued By Chicago Teachers Jim Horn 2009

  • Dispersing and dispossessing hundreds of such teachers in Chicago, and tens of thousands nationally of their livelihoods and agency in mid-career will be a severe blow to African American communities across the country.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Jim Horn 2009

  • Dispersing children to better endowed educational systems could benefit some of the younger children who are soft enough to be absorbed into a new culture.

    Think Progress » Katrina chat: 2005

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