Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nolan suggests that the penalties given out last year in the cases of Lowell House and 17 Quincy Street were fair. However, there is considerable evidence to suggest that the decisions were not fair. For example, people who engaged in the same activities received different penalties. There are also many CRR horror stories from the the late '60s and early '70s. Students were suspended or expelled on the basis of circumstantial evidence...
...bring up such grievances. But I believe that silence is acceptance, and I am not prepared to silently accept the status quo at the shantytown. As things stand, it is nothing less than a farce to call the shanties an "open university" and the standards of its membership fair behavior for a community. What the Open University lacks is dedication to its stated principles and a clear view of its objectives. What it requires is a personal commitment to uphold the rights of all and to protect the sacrosanctity of the individual. As the large picture of Archbishop Desmund Tutu...
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...usually brought in. Wearing a leather vest, a .357 in a holster and silver conches on his belt, the marshal was going over his ledgers when an elderly woman stuck her head in the door. "This is a $10 fine," she said. "I just don't think this is fair to the tourist. I was only there a little while...
Three times he had scheduled general elections, then canceled them after the opposition threatened boycotts. This time martial law Ruler Lieut. General Hossain Mohammed Ershad, who seized power in a 1982 coup, promised that the first voting in Bangladesh in seven years would take place in a "free, fair and peaceful atmosphere." It did not quite work out that way. At least twelve people were killed and 400 arrested last week amid blatant vote rigging, intimidation and violence, most of it committed by supporters of Ershad's Jatiya Party. At week's end the official count gave Jatiya 82 seats...