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Word: unfairly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unfair to expect realism in a movie? Television shows like L.A. Law and Night Court certainly don't portray the legal field with complete accuracy, so why should one expect any more from True Believer...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Not Just a 9-to-5 Job | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

...Dukakis tax plan virtually eliminates the capital gains tax reduction and calls for an increase in gasoline, cigarette and alcohol taxes. Critics have lambasted the proposal as unfair to the taxpayer and detrimental to economic growth...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: State Official: Tax Hike To Fund Social Agenda | 2/9/1989 | See Source »

Somebody should give these cafeteria workers a break. Last year, a house master questioned their ability to do basic math. And now an assistant dean is accusing them of racial insensitivity, a charge that is unfair and insulting...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: In Defense of the Fifties | 2/8/1989 | See Source »

...almost a decade, Margaret Atwood's fellow Canadians have dubbed her the "high priestess of angst." If the title is not exactly flattering, it is not entirely unfair. Most of her previous two dozen volumes of poems and fiction were freighted with allegorical misery: The Edible Woman feels herself cannibalized by family and friends; the paleontologist of Life Before Man views the people around her as potential fossils; in The Handmaid's Tale, a future America goes to hell when it is taken over by religious fundamentalists. But in Cat's Eye, Atwood jettisons her old techniques in favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time Arrested | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...When the question comes from party leaders, he reminds them that they begged him to take over the Jackson effort, knowing he would be a unifying influence. It is unfair, he says, to disqualify him for doing what they asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running As His Own Man: RONALD BROWN | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

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