Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...test should be: Was the election open, free and fair? If it was, then we should recognize the government that results. We can't pick the winners of elections in all countries around the world, but we can be in favor of democracy and do what we can to promote openness, democracy, pluralism and human rights...
Packard believes, not unreasonably, that the excessive concentration of wealth among a cadre of megamillionaires is worse than immoral; it is dangerous to the good health of capitalism. His proposed cures are fairly familiar -- and unlikely to be enacted: for example, taxing net worth above a certain level (say, $25 million) and reforming the rules on trusts that allow billions to escape fair taxation...
...everyone's interest to have a fair and just Harvard, a fair and just America. That is the true vision, one of everyone working together to combat insensitivity and prejudice, brought forth by Vision...
...seems Beresford has brought actors James Farentino, disinterred from his TV Dynasty days, and William Daniels, a casualty from the cancellation of the series St. Elsewhere to make guest appearances. Farentino, plays a pushy police lieutenant who does not believe in Nina's alibi, and though he gives a fair presentation of the script, his performance is uninspired. Daniels plays Selleck's whining publishing agent, but all he does is transfer his St. Elsewhere character to the screen. The cast is so familiar, in fact, that if you blink real fast you could almost swear you were sitting in front...
...versions of family and office politics, is too one-sided to be wholly plausible. Bingham's relations with her mother ring truer. At one point the matriarch is quoted as asking why her family could not be happy, since they were all rich, intelligent and beautiful. It is a fair question whose incomplete answer can be found in this resentful and blinkered book...