Word: fairer
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Meanwhile, back in Albert's office, the more Agnew talked, the more skeptical the Democrats became. As they saw it, Agnew's arguments did not add up. The Vice President was claiming that a House committee controlled by Democrats would be fairer than a court ? yet until lately he had been arguing that Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee had been unfairly hounding the White House. Agnew was attacking the leaks of the prosecutors ? yet the example of Ervin's committee showed that leaks could also spring freely on the Hill...
...They're bloody sociable, and they're fairer than English bosses ... We pay them back by pulling our weight...
...thing, black women are furious with whites for "stealing" their men, as evidenced by the rising total of marriages between black men and white women. Besides, black women see no reason to believe that a society in which white females held positions of power would be any fairer to blacks than a system dominated by white males...
...realized. But as with all dreams when they begin to become real, the effects can be unsettling. To the U.S., the most disturbing effect is of course economic. Shortly after the devaluation of the dollar last month, President Nixon instructed Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz to get a "fairer shake" for U.S. trade, even if he had to threaten protectionism. Faced with a massive and seemingly irreversible balance of payments deficit, the U.S. has begun to demand trade and monetary concessions-and to question whether Western Europe is carrying its share of the common defense burden...
...definitely against University policy to keep a man on in a temporary position longer than six or eight years. The wisdom of this policy may be open to question. But it is certainly fairer to give the man two years in which to better his position elsewhere. The Economics Department, which has charge of promotions has twice passed over these two instructors and promoted others, because it felt that, while Sweezy and Walsh were concededly popular and excellent teachers, they were likely, on the basis of their record of scholarship to remain stationary in their academic standing. Whether the Administration...