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Word: unfairly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference, and many of the minority students at the conference said not enough effort was made to ensure a fair representation of minorities, says Ritter. The minority students withdrew from the forum, stating in a letter that they did not want to be part of the organization under such unfair conditions...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: The Times, They Have a'Changed: Student Activism in the 1980s | 5/27/1988 | See Source »

...writers waiting in varying stages of despair for their phone to ring. They dream of giving interviews, being summoned to lionizing appearances and literary lunches. A reviewing assignment would be welcome; a request to blurb a fellow author's new book would not go unconsidered. But life is unfair. Those who have get, and those who could get sometimes choose not to. Like J.D. Salinger, who has spent most of his 69 years ducking the sort of publicity that most authors would kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted IN SEARCH OF J.D. SALINGER | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...unfair restrictions are successfully placed on Black fraternities and sororities, that have less money and resources than the well-protected, well-endowed final clubs and other similarly exclusive organizations, what would be next? There are still several other Black causes the administration can go after, investigate and perhaps even invalidate. Look at the way Harvard stuck by investing in apartheid...

Author: By Adriane Y. Stewart, | Title: Going After Black Frats | 5/18/1988 | See Source »

...gain the tolerance, the friendship, and the protection of the authority figures in my life." He admits that it was this adaptability that led him to join a Communist cell, which contained some of the theater's more influential members, and it may not be unfair to speculate that his behavior before HUAC derived from the same source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Incaution on A Grand Scale ELIA KAZAN: A LIFE | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

Faced with those potential calamities, Congress has labored for months on the trade legislation. The main thrust of the bill is to require that the President act against countries that put up unfair trade barriers against American products. In the past, the White House could ignore findings by the International Trade Commission, a Government agency, that U.S. industries were being hurt by foreign competition. Under the terms of the trade bill, the President would have less latitude to disregard the commission's recommendations that these industries be given import relief. The bill would also require that the White House launch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing Ground | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

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