Word: unfair
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...Britain, PM Gordon Brown rejected minimum pricing as unfair to the "responsible, sensible, majority of moderate drinkers." He also knows that, in the midst of a recession and with his poor ratings, making booze more expensive is political suicide. Brown's Thai counterpart Abhisit enjoys greater popularity among his people, but still cannot afford to anger them - not when his country's unemployment rate has (like Britain's) spiked sharply. But Abhisit needn't have worried. With Songkran fast approaching, the ban was scrapped - not because it was unfair to the responsible majority of Thai drinkers but because, like minimum...
...course, it's not just the sentencing of a journalist to eight years in prison that strikes many American observers as inherently unfair. It's hard to imagine someone with a less mysterious resume than Saberi. Before working for NPR, the BBC and various American broadcast television stations, she was a beauty queen from North Dakota and a former Miss America contestant. A woman with bikini photos of herself on the Internet is an unlikely choice for the CIA to send on covert operations to a conservative Islamic country where women have to wear head scarves in public. (See pictures...
...Band manager, Khalid Schroeder says Benaissa's arrest is the result of "a witch-hunt against Nadja. She is being prejudged. The investigation is still continuing and there are no hard facts yet. This is unfair. We want her to be released as soon as possible...
...discussion among the committee members prior to the vote was brief. Simmons told the committee that she opposed the proposal because it had been introduced at an inappropriate time, not because she did not support the programs it would benefit. She also said that she thought it would be unfair to consider restoring funding for only these specific groups this late in the process. “To do it for one group means you should do it for all,” she said. “It is our job as guardians of the public till, as well...
...whole process was such a sham, especially with the SCC leaking the link to their closest friends.” wrote John M. Mistovich ’09 in an e-mailed statement. “I’m glad they realized what happened Sunday night was wildly unfair and are redoing the process...