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...that an Administration that had barely come into office and whose economic plan had barely been enacted caused those job losses? If they are to be attributed to anyone it should be to Clinton, who had "run" the economy for the previous eight years. But that too would be unfair and irrational. The losses were a result of autonomous economic forces - the Internet bust and the subsequent recession - followed by autonomous political events like 9/11 and the war on terrorism...
...When it comes to China and defending American jobs, this White House is all talk and no action." JOHN KERRY, Democratic presidential candidate, criticizing the Bush Administration for rejecting calls to launch investigations into currency and labor practices that critics say give China an unfair trade advantage...
...says. "The kids were wound up. I was getting aggravated, so I decided to cut the grass." Not everyone, however, is enamored with his Deere. At a recent homeowners' association meeting, a neighbor asked if McCall might recuse himself from a Lawn of the Month contest, owing to the unfair edge his tractor gives him. McCall says he doesn't intend to back down...
...Election to the NAS is a bit unfair to life scientists because the number of elected members was set long ago, when the percentage of scientists who were in life science was much smaller,” Spiegelman said...
...think, at least in a Harvard context, simple grade cap proposals run into the difficulty that sometimes courses are taught at two different levels, and it seems unfair for there to be the same grade distribution in the more accelerated and less accelerated versions of the course,” he said. “And what one wants to do is apply some overall pressure against grade inflation without the excessively rigid structure that a fixed curve for all courses provides...