Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stupid things." As Fats Waller so aptly put it, "One never knows, do one?" In this day when politicians are created like androids by consultants and pollsters, using off- the-shelf parts for everything from hairstyles to stands on particular issues to deeply held moral beliefs, it seems almost unfair that this small item from the past should gum up the works of a state-of-the-art model like the young conservative Senator from Indiana...
Hughes, a subsidiary of General Motors, contends that its proposal was technically superior but that it lost out because the FAA gave IBM "preferential treatment" that helped the firm submit an unfair lower bid. For one thing, Hughes says, it was not informed by the agency of changes in specifications that favored IBM. The complaint also focuses on the fact that if Hughes had won, it was going to buy many of the necessary computers from IBM. Hughes says that in preparing its bid, it received inflated cost estimates from IBM on equipment needed from the computer maker. According...
...brand of Italian guns favored by both the fictitious James Bond and the very real U.S. Army. But last week Italy's Fabbrica d'Armi P. Beretta of Brescia fired off a $250 million suit against GM in Manhattan, charging that the automaker was guilty of trademark infraction and unfair competition...
Telephone companies look with envy at the cable-television business. But they are barred from offering cable service because regulators have feared that the phone companies' financial clout and network of lines would give them an unfair advantage over independent operators who had to install their own wiring. Now that cable companies have run wires past 80% of U.S. homes, the phone companies argue that the prohibition is unnecessary. Last week the Federal Communications Commission proposed lifting the restrictions that bar local telephone companies from offering cable service in their areas. The FCC will invite public comment on its plan...
College officials and some lawmakers also saidthe proposals are unfair because studentsconvicted of more serious crimes face no suchrestrictions in obtaining federal...