Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken public positions on controversial issues: he advocated fair union elections at a council-Corporation meeting last spring and says he opposes a bill calling on final clubs to admit women...
...February, the council voted down a proposal to endorse the sex discrimination complaint brought by Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 against the Fly Club but gave her $250 for legal expenses to ensure a fair hearing. In May, the council tabled a bill which would have called on the clubs to admit women...
...Debbie Slotnick, Ron Lee and Ken Lee don't have a monopoly on fairness or judiciousness. I think my record shows I've been very fair and reasonable," says Lockwood, pointing to his objectivity in taking the minutes during meetings devoted to the final clubs last year...
...There are certain kinds of conduct which we want to discourage," he said. "If you legalize it and remove the moral sanction attached to it, a fair number of people will experiment...
...require that even its supporters hold their noses. The A.C.L.U. has made enemies left and right in defense of draft-card burners during the Viet Nam War, Jehovah's Witnesses who choose not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, Nazis who wanted to march in Skokie, Ill., and a fair trial for Oliver North. Says William Schneider, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute: "Being linked to the A.C.L.U. is a problem because it takes up unpopular causes. Presidential candidates prefer popular causes...