Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With some 40 antitrust lawsuits pending against it, the giant American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (assets: $125 billion) is fast becoming one of the nation's most familiar courtroom defendants. Charged by competitors with service delays and unfair pricing to drive out competition, Ma Bell has entered into several agreements and is currently appealing a $1.8 billion antitrust award to MCI Communications Corp., which successfully argued that A T & T stalled in supplying telephone hookups needed for MCI to operate a rival long-distance telephone network...
...counting on the court to give them a reprieve from registration. Now that the constitutional question has been settled, the Justice Department intends to prosecute some of the more than 500,000 who have not yet registered. Even many of those who had, felt the exemption of women was unfair, for reasons both philosophical and practical. Said San Francisco Painting Contractor Mike Gallegioni, 21: "It will be lonely without them...
...ofon calls the verdict "wrong and unfair." Instead of granting a motion for summary judgment, he argues, Judge Mishler should have submitted the case to a jury to decide whether the Weimar museum had really proved its contention that the Dürers were stolen. He also maintains that he bought the paintings in good faith and that no one could prove that the seller had not somehow acquired valid title to them in Germany. Therefore, he contends, the German law of "good faith acquisition" should protect his ownership. Says...
Civil libertarians and social workers, however, claim the new INS policy, which permits perfunctory, closed hearings, is unfair to the bewildered, mostly illiterate Haitians. Critics challenge the Government's presumption that Haitians come here for economic reasons, and are thus not eligible for political asylum. Most Cuban arrivals, by contrast, are assumed to be fleeing from Communism. Some lawyers for the refugees charge it is racist to single out Haitians, 95% of whom are black, for exclusion...
...here. So are the special-effects people, whose work is far more polished technically than it was before. Taken together, all these people have contributed to the creation of something that is increasingly hard to find these days-an entertainment that actually achieves a near weightless state. It is unfair to burden such a work with excesses of praise. Suffice it to say that Superman II is a movie no kid need be ashamed to take his parents...