Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...survey reveals that American leaders believe the causes of U.S. trade deficit with Japan are the high quality and lower cost of Japanese products, Japanese export subsidies, unfair trade barriers, and higher U.S. wages...
...being slashed--it was Jimmy Carter who ignored Kennedy's calls for a massive employment program. And Carter represents at best a holding action; even where he is better than Reagan, he is not nearly good enough. Any man who defends denying Medicare funds for abortions because "life is unfair" cannot be fairly accused of more than a passing interest in social justice...
There are men who argue that sexual favors are a distinct and unfair advantage for women in corporate competition. Yet when sex enters business decisions, it far more frequently works against the woman who is harassed by a superior and forced to compromise herself or lose out in the promotional game. And, as Ellen Goodman points out in the Boston Globe, if women actually had this unfair advantage and used it, far more would have reached top corporate positions...
...someone raises the question, he will say that opposition to the landmark civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s has faded, and of course as President he will enforce those laws. But in private he will still say that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was too selective and unfair to the Southern states. In short, Reagan is still a Reaganite, though a more mature and polished Reaganite than in the past...
...secretive aspect of the system often gives the impression that decisions are made using unfair criteria--such as gender--particularly when departments recommend against promotion for their own associate professors. Because the "first order of eminence" guidelines are vague and because the senior faculty members who take part in departmental tenure votes discuss those decisions about as readily as the government provides top secret military information to the Kremlin, rejected junior faculty members often have only a hazy, idea of why their departments didn't want them. In the Skocpol decision, for example, James A. Davis, chairman of the Sociology...