Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank said that two bills passed last year, the Fair Housing Act and the Grove City Bill, protect people with AIDS, and carriers of the virus, from discrimination...
...surprised by how easily it was for us to get [that provision] into the Fair Housing Act," Frank said. "I don't think people fully understand what's there...
...fellow human beings, but also of doing so blindly in a desperate struggle to pay for our education. With the strong stand Harvard seems to be taking on other forms of discrimination (for example, discrimination against minorities, women and homosexuals), it is extremely disturbing to find myself as fair and even designated game for anyone wishing to take a crack at the establishment. If a full professor, such as [Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, Emeritus] Laurence Wylie, is allowed to make such derogatory generalizations about a whole sector of the student body, what is to keep other members...
With the strong stand Harvard seems to be taking on other forms of discrimination (for example, against minorities, women and homosexuals), it is extremely disturbing to find myself as fair and even designated game for anyone wishing to take a crack at the establishment. If a full professor, such as (Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Emeritus) Lawrence Wylie, is allowed to make such derogatory generalizations about a whole sector of the student body, what is to keep other members of the faculty and the student body from discriminating based on such an unfounded characterization...
Claiming that he had already been unfairly "tried and convicted in the press," Dr. Lionel A. Schwartz, 66, said he plans to retire permanently on May 15. In an interview yesterday, Schwartz said the press coverage of the case that began last April had made a fair hearing impossible...