Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...natural to blame Harvard, the $4.8 billion monolithic giant, for unfairly squeezing its students, and worse, for creating an example for other universities nationwide to increase their tuition. Given the nature of the institution, however, it is unfair to blame Harvard for the increasing costs of higher education...
Nevertheless, the decline of the underclass imposes a psychological burden, in part because whites remain far too willing to associate all blacks with welfare dependency, crime and broken families. Moreover, many middle-class blacks feel personally guilty about the unpromising prospects of poorer blacks. That may be the most unfair burden of all, since the black middle class by itself does not have nearly enough resources to lift the underclass into the mainstream. Patricia Grayson speaks for many affluent blacks when she observes, "One person can do only so much. I think it's unfair for people...
...quite. Critics say the policy is racist and unfair, encouraging the most motivated parents and students to take their talents and tax dollars out of inner-city schools, which are predominantly African American and Hispanic. The hemorrhage leaves these schools with the neediest students and fewer resources with which to help them...
Letting parents choose where their children will go to school sounds simple, but the policy excites divergent passions. Bush backs it. Critics say it is racist and unfair...
Persons concerned with the apparent unfairness to half a class who might face random assignment forget that the unfairness works to the benefit of the community, and it works within the ultimate numerical fairness of a random lottery. It's not number-crunching to say that the whole purpose of a lottery is geared to help fairly resolve unfair situations...