Word: unfair
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sport have have only become more grueling. Keeping the youngest competitors from the rigorous world of international competition is supposed to protect them from dangerous, potentially life-long injuries. In that respect, age doping is no different from other illegal performance enhancing tactic - not only is it unfair to the rest of the competitors, it's most unfair to the athletes doing it to themselves...
...girls, showing they are 16. But Karolyi remains doubtful - and critical. "I have no proof, so I cannot say they are underage," she said. "If that is true - which it possibly could be because one of the little girls has a missing tooth - then it is totally unfair because it doesn't give an even playing field for people all over the world...
...more women in labor being tethered to monitors and forced under the knife. And pro--home birthers are pushing the notion that choosing where and how to give birth should be regarded as a civil rights issue. "Legislating against home birth is totally un-American and unfair," says Joan Bryson, who has worked as a midwife in New York City for 17 years. "We rank 42nd in the world in live births, and we spend more money than anyone else. You can't blame it on home birth...
...other side of the door is a photo of J. Edgar Hoover. Staring at it, Mulder and Scully just shrug, but that's unfair to the FBI's snoop extraordinaire, the vicar of voyeurs, the patron saint of the TV show's belief that under every bed, in every closet or out in a pumpkin patch is something very scary that could bring America to its knees. And even if it doesn't, it's worth tracking down, keeping in a locked drawer. Knowledge is power, and belief in the dark side spurs you to gain that knowledge...
...told dirty jokes (a.k.a. what Bernie Mac does for a living). Comics Randi Rhodes and Penn Jillette took heat for nasty jokes about Hillary Clinton; John McCain, for joking about using U.S. cigarette exports as a weapon to kill Iranians. Partisans argued over whether Saturday Night Live was more unfair to Obama than Comedy Central was to Clinton. Across America, the body politic is busily making mountains out of droll hills...