Word: unfairly
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Judges have traditionally enjoyed such leeway in meting out jail terms that one prisoner could serve many times as long as another for a similar crime. Concerned about unfair -- and often overly lenient -- sentences, Congress in 1984 created the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which issued a manual that greatly restricts judges' discretion in sentencing 40,000 federal defendants a year. The new system, for crimes committed since Nov. 1, 1987, also abolished parole and sharply limited probation and time off for good behavior...
...could hurt Iacocca a bit less than his Big Three rivals, since Chrysler's fleet of mostly midsize-and- smaller cars gets an average of 27.5 m.p.g., vs. 27.2 for General Motors and 26.6 for Ford. GM Chairman Roger Smith has denounced a higher gas tax as "cruel" and "unfair" and argued that it would dampen auto sales. Ford has straddled the fence. Vice Chairman Harold Poling said his company would support a phased increase of 15 cents per gal. over three years, but only as a last resort for cutting the deficit...
This movie is full of enough facts to make the viewer suspicious, and enough distortions to be the truth. Maybe it is every bit as unfair to the FBI, which pursued the case vigorously and effectively, as it is to Freedom Riders. But whose truth is it anyway? Every film -- or every biography or news report or memory -- is distorted, if only by one's perceptions. To create art is to pour fact into form; and sometimes the form shapes the facts. William Randolph Hearst never said "Rosebud," and Evita Peron didn't sing pop, and Richard III was probably...
LIKE any case of unfair treatment against a minority group, the only way to completely eradicate bias against gays and lesbians is education. The Hampton controversy has one bright spot--it has received nationwide media coverage, showing the country the daily ordeal gays and lesbians must endure in their ordinary lives...
...gift may nevertheless be refused. Government acceptance will need special congressional approval, thanks to a law written by Shultz's tenacious Senate adversary Jesse Helms. The conservative North Carolina Republican argues that providing living quarters for the Secretary of State would be unfair to other Cabinet members, all of whom have to find their own accommodations in the capital. Last year Helms won passage for a measure that specifically bans the Secretary from soliciting or receiving property for an official residence...