Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company and then put it back on the market. LBO critics argue that managers who fatten their wallets in this way are really profiting at the expense of other stockholders. So far, shareholders have brought eleven class-action suits against RJR Nabisco charging executives with acts ranging from "unfair self-dealing" to "not acting in the best interests of the stockholders...
Although she lost the November 8 election bynearly 3000 votes, confusion at some pollingplaces, including misplaced stickers and defacedvoting mechanisms, caused her supporters tocomplain that the election was unfair...
...doesn't seem like an unfair influence," O'Neill contends...
However, the student's complaint that SWAT chanted and marched while he expressed his views on sexual discrimination is unfair, It was, after all, a rally. The student, Louis M. Green '91 could have drawn me aside and talked to me, but it is presumptuous of him to demand that the entire group stop to listen to his personal views. Surely this does not constitute "arrogance, condescension" or elitism...
...which the Republicans used to fuel the politics of resentment, all come out of Richard Nixon's playbook. In the minds of too many voters, the Democrats are still the party of militant blacks, meddlesome social workers, uppity feminists and draft-card-burning protesters. Such images not only are unfair but also reflect some of the nation's most deep-seated prejudices. Sad to say, they also provide a convincing explanation for the pattern inherent in the defeats of Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale and now Dukakis...