Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never know that they belong to a "union"?and never receive any of the benefits of being in a union ?the employer nevertheless pays the "union organizers" the workers' initiation fees and monthly dues. In another variation, the bogus union settles for "sweetheart" contracts that are grossly unfair to the workers it is supposed to represent. The difference between what a legitimate union might win for the workers and what the Mob union actually obtains is split between the mobsters and the company owners. In one such contract, writes Donald Cressey in his definitive work, Theft...
Blue Shield published the information. The result, says Polansky, was "an enormous amount of crank-letter harassment" as well as "slanted and distorted unfair newspaper publicity." Added the doctor: "The harassment has grossly affected my wife's health and the well-being of my family to the point that my receipt of these moneys, though earned and deserved, is simply not worth the retaining." With that, he sent back a check for $169,000 to Blue Shield and invited the agency to re-audit his books, and to "honor only those invoices which are supported to your satisfaction...
...been so magnificent under a tremendous strain which people don't know about. He has been overly conscientious about his father and about me and about Ethel-in addition to his own obligations. He has been so faithful in caring about us all. It has really been unfair -the burden...
...national poll for TIME, Louis Harris found that a substantial majority of Americans interviewed (68%) feel that "it is unfair to be critical of the way Senator Kennedy reacted to the accident, because the same thing could have happened to anyone." By 58% to 30%, the public felt that "he has suffered and been punished and should be given the benefit of the doubt." Yet, by 44% to 36%, a plurality thinks that Kennedy has failed to "tell the real truth...
...probably unfair to lay the issue out along such sharp either/or lines. All that most Americans contributed to Apollo was enthusiasm and taxes. Rebuilding the cities, attacking poverty and scrubbing the air and water, demand unflagging personal commitment by almost everyone. Such efforts call for an unprecedented exercise in social engineering. They would require the development of new and ingenious management techniques; their expenditure of money and manpower would dwarf the cost of the technical teamwork that put men on the moon...