Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Insurance Development Corporation that would end "redlining" practices, by which insurance companies refuse to insure homes and businesses in potential ghetto riot areas. As well, he requested $1 billion for model cities, a threefold increase over last year, and passage of the Administration's oft-requested fair-housing law. All told, the multifaceted program would cost taxpayers $2.4 billion for the first year...
WHEN the American Bar Association approved the recommendations of its Advisory Commission on Fair Trial and Free Press last week, no one expected the decision to slip by unnoticed. The Committee-headed by Justice Paul C. Reardon of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court-advocated restricting the information given to mass media during criminal procedings on the grounds that publicity often prejudiced jurors' decisions. There is probably no perfect solution to a conflict as fundamental as the clash between freedom of the press and the right to fair trial. But the loud indignation of the great majority of media representatives seems...
...began to look like a random selection plan to the President and his advisers without really being fair and impartial, the essence of random selection...
...seemed likely that almost no large firm anywhere in the country could afford to lag far behind. One of Cravath's partners, Thomas Barr, explained that "the decision was not made for competitive reasons. We did it because we thought it was the right thing and the fair thing" in the light of onerously escalating living costs in New York...
...give effective assistance to the bishop in his government of the diocese." This was a rather radi cal advance, and there was some doubt that the senates would have any effective voice. But already senates have been set up in 127 dioceses. And most have met with a fair degree of success...