Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airline captain for one of our largest carriers, I congratulate you on doing a fair and factual piece on aviation safety [April 11]. The machines have become as sound and foolproof as man can design-but man himself is the weak link...
...Carter's view, the U.S. must conserve if it hopes to leave "a decent world for our children and our grandchildren." He said the sacrifices he would ask of Americans "will be painful" but also "gradual, realistic?and, above all, fair." Well aware of the difficulties in getting his program through Congress, he predicted special-interest groups would proclaim "sacrifice is fine, as long as other people do it." Pointedly looking beyond Congress, Carter predicted that the fate of his plan "will not be decided here in Washington, but in every town and every factory, in every home...
...last few weeks, the department's angst has been focused on a particular--and very concrete--issue: money. The department's tenured American history faculty has easy access to substantial summer stipends, and other senior members of the department have come to feel it just isn't fair...
...Crimson lights will be trying to regain, or find for the first time, their confidence as they race for the Haines Cup at Navy. Coach John Higginson shuffled his crew around this week and a solid win is needed (crabs are no fair this time around) before the boat encounters Princeton and Yale next week and Penn at the Sprints...
With his short game clicking, Vik emerged relatively unscathed with his lone double bogey coming on the 175-yard par three 16th. He managed a par on the first hole without ever playing off of the fair-way, which is really a 455-yard strip of what was once a polo field adjacent to the Country Club's defunct race track...