Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...primary campaigns against Hubert Humphrey. As President, J.F.K. got involved with a Mafia chiefs girlfriend. In a new book, The Kennedy Imprisonment, Author Garry Wills presents the Kennedys as an energetic but morally empty collection, fatally and somehow pointlessly ambitious. Wills is as ruthlessly eloquent-and often unfair-with the Kennedys as he was with Nixon in his 1970 book, Nixon Agonistes...
...seen, well prepared, on This Week with David Brinkley, where he and George F. Will work over Prime Ministers, Congressmen and Cabinet members. This is no good-guy, bad-guy team. Will throws out questions from deep rightfield. Donaldson simply goes straight for the jugular. The effect can be unfair, informative and intimidating. The exchange must be fast. Any guest who wants time to reflect risks not being asked back. If he filibusters, he will be interrupted (it takes equal brass, as with Senator Edward Kennedy, to insist, "Excuse me, if I can finish...
...cuts in financial aid, and he devoted his most recent annual report to the subject. That report drew harsh criticism for suggesting that financial and be limited to students who scored above some non specified minimum level on standardized tests. Bok was surprised by the criticism his suggestion was unfair and perhaps even subtly racist--an allegation some levelled because minorities on average score lower on SAT's than do whites Most observers have found it surprising that Bok didn't realize the controversial nature of the suggestion before the report came...
...rates come down? Is not the time overdue for the U.S. to ensure harmony between its monetary and fiscal policies? Is the Administration ready to stabilize the value of the dollar? How can the West increase demand and output without setting off inflation again? The President may think it unfair to be faced with such an inquisition, but he will be assured that no one is trying merely...
...Bonzo made more sense than what they were doing in Washington." The reference, of course, was to a 1951 movie in which Ronald Reagan played a professor who tried to educate a chimp. The wisecrack was part of an attack on congressional Democrats, and as such was a bit unfair since Reagan is partly to blame for the present budget confusion. Back in February, he offered Congress a budget containing increases in military spending so large, cuts in social outlays so drastic, and deficit projections so high that hardly any legislators in either party would accept them. After compromise negotiations...