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Word: unfairly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That is unfair. Denton does not use McCarthy's ambush tactics, and unlike McCarthy, he is plainly sincere. He spent more than four of his years as a Vietnamese prisoner in solitary, his feet manacled to the floor for months at a time. Nonetheless, he maintained a chain of command in the P.O.W. camps and endured savage beatings for it. When forced to video-tape a confession, he blinked his eyes in Morse code to send the world a message, "Torture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Admiral from Alabama | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...been called brilliant, thoughtful, incisive and screamingly funny. Also, vicious, infuriating, cruel and unfair. NBC President Fred Silverman no longer returns his calls. His thrice-weekly Washington Post TV column, "On the Air," syndicated in 59 other newspapers, causes teeth-gnashing in Hollywood and heartburn in Manhattan's network headquarters. Critic Tom Shales, 33, the plump, droll, sometimes zany man at the heart of all this Sturm und Drang, puts his brown-and-tan saddle shoes up on the desk in his cramped fifth-floor office at the Post and shrugs off all the fuss: "The networks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Terrible Tom, the TV Tiger | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...District 65, United Auto Workers, to represent them in their future dealings with Harvard--a major blow to the union's seven-year organizing effort. The day after the vote, District 65 field a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), charging that Harvard engaged in unfair labor practices that influenced the outcome of the vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Setbacks | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...tenure. Things like role models and general contributions to the intellectual community are not what they see as valid." Randolph notes that though "we like to think service to the community is important... it's not going to have any importance when it comes to tenure. There is something unfair about this system...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Slow Motion On a Tenure Track | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Most members of the Class of '56 recall living by the standards they found upon arriving in Cambridge. They worked hard in classes but played the roles expected of them elsewhere. "We probably knew a lot of things were unfair." says one alum." Still, it just didn't occur to us to do anything about...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Not-So-Silent Generation | 6/2/1981 | See Source »

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