Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since early 1979, when it last held elections, HUERA has had a number of clashes with Harvard, climaxing this summer with the unfair labor practice charge now under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board. While internal disagreements have not consistently hampered the University's largest union--it represents nearly 500 custodians and 50 security guards, about as many employees in total as the dining workers union--HUERA's politics in the last two years have hardly proved dull, as the following chronology attests...
...Where have all the liberals gone," is baloney. They have gone to the White House, to the Khyber Pass, to vote against school integration in Congress, to the Pentagon. It was Carter's bellicose administration that paved the way for Reagan. Under Carter's aphorism of privilege "life is unfair," working people, Blacks and the poor faced grinding inflation and unemployment while the government pushed for war with the Soviet Union, making the U.S. political climate "safe," indeed welcome for Ronald Reagan...
...will do what they say, but at least they have to have the feeling that their views are considered before the fact, and not after. I think that the President just cannot make a decision and then call up the Congress and say, "Give me help." That is unfair. He has got to ask their advice. Even if he does not agree with it, he can then go back and ask for their help, and he would be in a much better position to get results. By strengthening the leadership the President would make the Congress more responsive...
Direct election: For years, analysts and legislators have argued that the electoral college, by taking the final decision "out of the people's hands," is an archaic, outmoded and unfair way of selecting our presidents. What they--and a number of Congressmen who have introduced legislation--suggest is the institution of a direct vote, with the candidate receiving a plurality of the popular vote being the winner. But opponents, who claim that a direct vote would work unfairly against small states, have held the edge in the debate...
Several Law School student organizations and the Coalition on Responsible Dean Selection (CORDS) plan to protest the current process because it is "unfair, illegitimate, and blatantly discriminatory," Larry Coben, a CORDS spokesman, said...