Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard has the legal right to appeal this decision. But it has no moral reason left. In the past, the University argued in favor of fairness; now the election has been deemed fair. Yet Harvard is still fighting...
...next President should make a priority of health, particularly the fair distribution of health services. With the notable exception of Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's commitment, this Administration has often gone no further in health care than bromides. Candidates George Bush and Michael Dukakis declare that health care is high on their agendas, but neither one has offered a comprehensive approach to the issue...
Good question, especially since the fair-haired, fair-skinned Malones had identified themselves as white on their first applications. Eventually the twins, now 33, claimed that they did not learn they were black until 1976, when, they say, their mother discovered a sepia photograph of a pale-looking woman she said was their black great-grandmother. Last month, after an investigation of their claim, they were fired...
Corporate managers who help fill campaign kitties say they merely want to make sure that their views are given a fair hearing in the corridors of power. Public-interest groups see something more sinister at work. Fred Wertheimer, president of Washington-based Common Cause, contends that "Congress is being corrupted" by contributions that "buy influence and undermine meaningful elections...
Haass added that he would classify 90 percent of all Latin American countries as democracies because they have a free press, hold fair elections and guarantee access to public institutions...