Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SINCE students who take higher-income jobs end up subsidizing those who have lower-paying ones, Bush campaign officials were quick to charge that this program is inherently unfair. Yet such deeply entrenched federal programs as Social Security and the federal income tax operate on this same principle, namely that those who can afford to pay more should do so to ensure the solvency of the program...
...referendum proposes unilateral action on the part of the United States against her ally in order to impose a solution, without pressuring the Arab nations, or the Soviet Union, to do the same for their ally. That is grossly unfair, and it plays into the hands of the annexationists on the Israel side and the rejectionists on the Palestinian side...
...critics say, there should be limits. Said Marvin Kalb, director of Harvard's center on the press, politics and public policy: "The President should be conducting the nation's business, but when he does it in a highly partisan way, there is the perception that he is at least unfair, if not improper...
...Quayle quandary has led many to behave as though Viet Nam battle stars and scars should be an entrance requirement for public office. Not only is it a bit unfair to single out Quayle for taking refuge in the National Guard, but ; the belated embrace of combat chic, which now stretches from movie screens to comic books, seems a disturbingly one-sided way to redress the inequities of the Viet Nam-era draft. Away from the heat of political campaigns, many Americans acknowledge that the Viet Nam War was fraught with moral ambiguity and that honor could be found...
...Selective Service began sweeping more and more men into the military (283,586 in 1969), many complained, justifiably, that the selection system was still unfair. In response, a draft lottery was introduced for 1970: a number from 1 to 366 was randomly assigned to each day of the year (including Feb. 29), and men were picked for military service based on their birthdays. Quayle, born on Feb. 4, was given 210; men with numbers as high as 215 were drafted...