Text justification in Pages

When I open docx files or create new files in Pages, I regularly meet with the strange text justification. When justify alignment is used in the document, one of the lines start to be aligned with bigger letter spacing then others. It repeats several times per page. Look at the line #3 from down:
The only advice I found here is to use hyphenation, which is not possible with official documents, for example. Are there any other solutions to the issue?

I honestly do not believe anyone that designed, or has used Pages v5 (including v5.5), can actually predict its translation behavior with Word documents — whether on open, or export. I wish I could say, "Oh, just set your line spacing to exactly 1.2, and your character spacing to -2%," and have that fix your visual justification, and font artifacts. It could be that Pages translation of Word documents in the designated font were not thorougly tested.
The fact is, that Pages v5 is the worst word processing application that Apple has ever unleashed on Mac users. You probably have read all that, so I would suggest a switch to Office for Mac 2011 update 14.4.5 on Yosemite, and work directly in the native Word document format. As you mentioned, apparently other application choices have figured out Word document handling.

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