Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quarterback John McCluskey passed nine yard to Dan Calderwood, and Wally Grant then went three yards up the middle for a first down at the Red 24. Monday morning quarterbacking is patently unfair, but if McCluskey had called three running plays and moved the ball within field goal range, Harvard would have won the game. On first down he threw an incomplete pass; on second down Grant carried the ball three yards; on third down McCluskey threw an errant pass in the direction of Dan Calderwood...
...Sorensen, nothing is more unfair than the judgment-most often passed by "professional liberals"-that Kennedy was basically shallow, aloof and uncommitted. "Some mistook his humor, gaiety and gentle urbanity for a lack of depth, and some mistook his cool calculation of the reasonable for a lack of commitment," writes Sorensen. "But his wit was merely an ornament to the earnest expressions that followed, and his reason reinforced his deep convictions and ideals...
...everyone gets a ranking, however. To avoid the unfair connotations put on relative class position when grade points are so close--it is reported that more than 250 students have averages between 67 and 69--the school only ranks the top 100 students. These are the students who fill up the Wall St. firms and the top government jobs...
...August. For the first time, a numerical restriction of 120,000 immigrants was imposed on the nations of the Western Hemisphere. Under Administration pressure, the House had retained the old bill's provision permitting unlimited immigration from Canada and Latin America, but the Senate rejected the provision as unfair to all the other nations of the world. When the bill goes to a Senate-House conference shortly, the restriction is expected to remain. In addition, an estimated 60,000 parents, children or spouses of U.S. citizens will be admitted each year regardless of nationality. Though the bill will increase...
...toward success in a culture of broad middle-class values. "If a child does poorly on an aptitude test because he comes from the wrong side of the tracks," says the Educational Testing Service's vice president, Henry S. Dyer, "it isn't the test that is unfair; it is the hard facts of social circumstance that are unfair...