Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the activists agreed that the council meeting's procedure should not be challenged. "The procedure was essentially fair and reasonable, and the vote reflects the sentiment of the Undergraduate Council," Weissman said...
When he meets the blond-haired, fair-featured Tanya, he baits her about racial characteristics. He asks her if she is "blonde all over." "If she had blonde hair," he muses, "would he have said, `Are you brown everywhere? Do you have brown public hair...
...name it, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has an opinion, which he will give you with great certainty at high speed. There has never been a Surgeon General like him, not even Luther Terry, who slapped warnings on cigarette packs 24 years ago. It's a fair guess that Terry was never air-kissed by Elizabeth Taylor, the butt of jokes in Johnny Carson's monologue, was never a visitor to the set of Golden Girls, and never lectured Hollywood producers about showing safe sex in their programs. Antismoking is a small part of Koop's crusade; AIDS, child abuse...
...Dartmouth and Cornell University Medical College, completing his training at the University of Pennsylvania in 1947. He surprised many people when he decided to specialize in pediatric surgery, a decidedly low-rent field in those days, when the real brains were going into neurosurgery. "Children weren't getting a fair shake in surgery, getting giant incisions like their grandfathers' and being sewn up like a football when a tiny hole would do," he recalls. "I saw the chance to make a difference." There were about five such surgeons in the country at the time (there are close...
...think there are some areas of physics that the public is very concerned with," says Robert A. Huggins of Stanford University. "It's only fair to expect that the press is going to find about...