Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrations and scapegoat were not the first in the French exhibitors' fight against TV's increasingly damaging competition. Last January the movie-theater owners' federation even ventured a $20 million damage suit against the French national television network, which is run by the government. The charge: "unfair competition," which has reduced cinema attendance throughout France a full one-third since 1958. Their federation's lawsuit was thrown out, with the theater owners ordered to pay the court costs...
That said, Harlan then proceeded to reject Ervin's case. "A partial closing is an unfair labor practice," Harlan ruled, "if motivated by a purpose to chill unionism in any of the remaining plants of the single employer and if the employer may reasonably have foreseen that such closing will likely have that effect...
...this an unfair labor tactic? Yes, said the NLRB, because the lockout forced the unions to abandon their wage demands. Moreover, it was so timed that it nullified the unions' strike power during the company's most vulnerable period. The court sharply disagreed. The company showed no antiunion bias, said Justice Potter Stewart for the unanimous bench. Rather, it legally used the "bargaining lockout" as a corollary of the "bargaining strike." Lockouts may disrupt strike plans, but the right to strike does not include "the right exclusively to determine the timing and duration of all work stoppages...
...said that he does not now have the personnel necessary to create new courses, and he will not alter old courses because this would be "unfair" to undergraduates and graduates who are studying Fine Arts...
Because Joel Martin is surrounded by such fine performances, it seems unfair to praise him excessively. Yet his subtle, dashing Macheath deserves every superlative in my critical vocabulary. With just a twinkle of his eye he tells you what he's thinking, makes you an accomplice in his delight. He and Philip Heckscher, as Macheath's helpmate filch, perfectly time their comic gestures to suit their songs. And they both have rich, pleasing voices. Richard Backus, as Locket, is the male counterpart of Miss Levine, a slapstick scene stealer with a comically mobile face. Unfortunately awkward, for he seems unsure...