Rawls postulated the difference principle which argued that " inequalities are justified only if needed to improve the lot of the worst off, for example by giving the talented an incentive to create wealth.

Sports has postulated that Haines may be " the worst player in the Hall of Fame.

Using Landau symbols, the worst case running time of CYK is, where n is the length of the parsed string and | G | is the size of the CNF grammar G. This makes it one of the most efficient parsing algorithms in terms of worst-case asymptotic complexity, although other algorithms exist with better average running time in many practical scenarios.

* Best, worst and average case-considerations for estimating execution times in three scenarios

The Guards are one of the Norwegian Army's best trained units ; this means they operate with the normal " green " service, where they train for worst case scenarios.

In worst case scenarios, thoroughly constricting tourniquets have been applied to bitten limbs, completely shutting off blood flow to the area.

Most recently, IRD has challenged church officials who they say uncritically accept worst case scenarios regarding human-induced climate change.

It celebrated Christmas from their perspective, a reality where none of the intended guests turned up, and imaginary scenarios where the worst possible guests did.

The developer can better reason about the worst case performance requirements in an instance because they do not have to consider scenarios such as hundreds of players descending on any location at any time.

Being an " action of man ," in worst case scenarios, spiritual abuse can otherwise be considered a form of " spiritual terrorism.

A period of large trade deficits and improper real estate investment hit Bulgaria hard during the late-2000s recession, resulting in a 5. 5 % GDP decline in that period, a rise in unemployment, and spending at least five quarters in its worst recession since the early 1980s.

He paid special attention to the civilian food supply, as the city financed large warehouses of food that enabled the residents to avoid the worst of the severe shortages that beset most German cities during 1918 – 1919.

* 1970 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200, 000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.

* October 30 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in 6 years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200, 000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.

It has been mathematically proven that generalized chess ( chess played with an arbitrarily large number of pieces on an arbitrarily large chessboard ) is EXPTIME-complete, meaning that determining the winning side in an arbitrary position of generalized chess provably takes exponential time in the worst case ; however, this theoretical result gives no lower bound on the amount of work required to solve ordinary 8x8 chess.

But then, it also contributed to the deluge in Australia, which resulted in one of that country's worst natural disasters with large parts of Queensland either under water from floods of unusual proportions or being battered by tropical cyclones, including that of category 5 Tropical Cyclone Yasi.

Superheroes at large have appeared only in the past five years, and are viewed with at best, suspicion, and at worst, outright hostility.

** Montevideo Maru, a Japanese ship sunk in World War II, resulting in the loss of large numbers of Austalian prisoners of war and civilians and Australia's worst maritime disaster

In the words of one reviewer: " At worst, the allegiance system is a multilevel marketing scheme, whereby greedy, uncaring Patrons enlist as many Vassals as possible in order to gain large amounts of bonus experience.

One of the worst calamities to touch the village occurred in 1916, when a disastrous fire destroyed a large part of the business area and several homes.

The large pimples that appear in those areas may cause the worst of the infection if popped.

It is a common belief that the water quality of the Charles River is at its worst after a large rainfall because of pollutants carried by runoff.

The errors of this method are much smaller, O ( ε √ N ) on average and O ( ε N ) in the worst case, but this is still large enough to substantially degrade the accuracy of FFTs of large sizes.

This storm knocked out electrical service to large parts of the city for several days and damaged a large percentage of the trees, making this event the worst natural disaster to hit the city since at least the 1986 tornado.

If a keloid grows too large, removal is the only solution, resulting in a scar or, in worst cases, amputation.

see full article here, a large forest fire that was one of worst in recorded history in North America.

The term Orc does occur twice ; once in an instance where Gandalf is trying to scare Bilbo by mentioning creatures of the wilderness " goblins, hobgoblins, and orcs of the worst description ," and again when the narrator mentions Orcs as nothing but large goblins, and also in the Elvish name of Thorin's sword, Orcrist.

Foreign debt-to-GDP ratios rose from 100 % to 167 % in the four large Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) economies in 1993 – 96, then shot up beyond 180 % during the worst of the crisis.

As a result, the NDP won a large majority government of 74 seats while the Liberals suffered the worst defeat in their history.

Bravo was the worst U. S. nuclear accident, but many of its component problems — unpredictably large yields, changing weather patterns, unexpected fallout contamination of populations and the food supply — occurred during other atmospheric nuclear weapons tests by other countries as well.

Moreover, in the worst case log ( n ) will approach m. Also, the simple operations tries use during lookup, such as array indexing using a character, are fast on real machines.

This slowdown is worst when running on host machines with deep execution pipelines, such as current x86 chips.

The common static electric sparks seen under low-humidity conditions always involve voltage well above 700 V. For example, sparks to car doors in winter can involve voltages as high as 20, 000 V. Also, physics demonstration devices such as Van de Graaff generators and Wimshurst machines can produce voltages approaching one million volts, yet at worst they deliver a brief sting.

A problem peculiar to machines with serial memory is the latency of the storage medium: Instructions and data are not always immediately available and, in the worst case, one must wait for the complete recirculation of a delay line to obtain data from a given memory address.

* 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union ( now Ukraine ), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

Despite the solid offensive performance, the bullpen struggled with 23 blown saves ( a Major League worst ), and the Indians finished a disappointing fourth.

In general, yarns become stronger with more twist ( also called worst ), longer fibers and thicker yarns ( more fibers ); for example, thinner yarns require more twist than do thicker yarns to resist breaking under tension.

" They sent Barry Bernardi, their location manager ( and associate producer ), " on a sort of all-expense-paid trip across the country looking for the worst city in America ," producer Debra Hill remembers.

Although the Bombers were competitive during the first quarter, the Crows dominated from that point on, winning 26. 10 ( 166 ) to 10. 10 ( 70 ), handing the Bombers their worst finals defeat and ending their 2009 campaign.

Rawls's theory distinguishes two kinds of goods – ( 1 ) liberties and ( 2 ) social and economic goods, i. e. wealth, income and power – and applies different distributions to them – equality between citizens for ( 1 ), equality unless inequality improves the position of the worst off for ( 2 ).

In general, yarns become stronger with more twist ( also called worst ), longer fibers and thicker yarns ( more fibers ); for example, thinner yarns require more twist than do thicker yarns to resist breaking under tension.

The team continued a youth movement in 2005, but finished with a 56 – 106 record (. 346 ), a full 43 games out of first place, marking the third time in four seasons that the team reestablished the mark for worst record in franchise history The season also saw the Royals lose a franchise record 19 games in a row.

The worst case is when the value is not in the list ( or occurs only once at the end of the list ), in which case n comparisons are needed.

One of Baum's worst financial endeavors was his The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays ( 1908 ), which combined a slideshow, film, and live actors with a lecture by Baum as if he were giving a travelogue to Oz.

The traditional model of grading on a curve ( top student gets the best grade, worst student always fails ( even if they know all the material ), everyone else is evenly distributed in the middle ) is never accepted in OBE or standards-based education.

During the 1960s, Clemente batted over. 300 in every year except 1968, when, thanks to yet another freak off-season injury ( à la 1965 ), he got off to the worst start of his major league career, hitting just. 245 by the All-Star break, and doing well just to reach. 291 by season's end.

Joshi argues that King's best-known works ( his supernatural novels ), are his worst, describing them as mostly bloated, illogical, maudlin and prone to deus ex machina endings.

Despite these criticisms, Joshi argues that since Gerald's Game ( 1993 ), King has been tempering the worst of his writing faults, producing books that are leaner, more believable and generally better written.

His next film, Ed Wood ( 1994 ), was of a much smaller scale, depicting the life of Ed Wood, a filmmaker sometimes called " the worst director of all time ".

** 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph ( 193 km / h ) tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ), killing an estimated 500, 000 people ( considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster ).

Because of Derrida's vehement attempts to " rescue " Heidegger from his existentialist interpreters ( and also from Heidegger's " orthodox " followers ), Derrida has at times been represented as a " French Heidegger ", to the extent that he, his colleagues, and his former students are made to go proxy for Heidegger's worst ( political ) mistakes, despite ample evidence that the reception of Heidegger's work by later practitioners of deconstruction is anything but doctrinaire.

Figures here assume the spacecraft is travelling towards the sun ( since the solar wind is directional ), under the worst conditions for thrust.

This gives a safe analysis ( the worst case is never underestimated ), but one which is pessimistic, since there may be no input that would require this path.

Once filming of Breezy had finished, Warner Brothers announced that Eastwood had agreed to reprise his role as Detective Harry Callahan in Magnum Force ( 1973 ), a sequel to Dirty Harry, about a group of rogue young officers ( among them David Soul, Robert Urich and Tim Matheson ) in the San Francisco Police Force who systematically exterminate the city's worst criminals.

The worst architectural losses of the Luftwaffe bombardment were the splendid buildings of the Ionian Academy ( Ιόνιος Ακαδημία ), and the Municipal Theatre ( which in 1901 had replaced the Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo ).

As in much of the popular fiction that Heinlein would have been familiar with in his youth ( e. g., Tarzan and The Virginian ), the theme is that the wilderness acts as a magnifying glass to amplify the inherent differences between the best and the worst of the human race.

In 1991 he published The Other Heading, in which he discussed the concept of identity ( as in cultural identity, European identity, and national identity ), in the name of which in Europe have been unleashed " the worst violences ," " the crimes of xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism, religious or nationalist fanaticism.

According to a report by the International Labour Organization ( ILO ), in 2002, more than 109, 000 children were working on cocoa farms in Côte d ' Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ), some of them in " the worst forms of child labour ".