Word: unfair
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seriousness, this is really quite unfair.' ALAN GREENSPAN, former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, defending himself against accusations that his policies are to blame for the nation's current economic woes...
...Meanwhile, curry restaurateurs are up in arms over “unfair discrimination” against Pakistani and Bangladeshi curry chefs, who often come to Britain with little formal education or English language proficiency. They complain that the new points system favors highly educated, English-speaking professionals and will reduce the number of curry chefs entering Britain, thus harming the curry industry...
...mood, it doesn't happen. There's an unspoken agreement: the person with the lower desire expects his or her spouse to accept it, not complain about it, and also to be monogamous. In my years in working with couples, that's pretty much an unfair and unworkable arrangement...
...compensation, but we would have been happy to pay for his services.” Facebook later responded to ConnectU’s founders, Divya K. Narendra ’04, Cameron Winklevoss and his brother Tyler O. H. Winklevoss ’04, by counter-suing for unfair business practices. Zuckerberg said in 2004 that his participation in ConnectU’s development was “informal”—that he contributed less than a day’s work and quit when the project yielded few appreciable results. In 2005, ConnectU subpoenaed The Crimson...
...Holmes handed down the infamous ruling summarized in the title above. He was talking about forced sterilization of the “feeble-minded,” but his words also sum up one attitude towards Harvard’s legacy admissions. You can frequently hear muttering about how unfair it is that Harvard is admitting legacies over equally—or even more—qualified candidates. Anti-legacyism is the last acceptable prejudice. These underqualified, overprivileged, moderately pasty folk need to stop slipping over the admissions border and stealing everyone’s slots. Or so the argument...