Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embraces free trade, but the President has been under pressure from Capitol Hill to protect U.S. business interests. Rather than give Congress an excuse to pass protectionist legislation, the White House has taken a fairly tough line, bringing 17 actions since 1985 against nations deemed to be engaging in unfair trade practices. The most dramatic censure came last year, when the Administration imposed $300 million worth of sanctions against Japanese products after deciding that Tokyo had reneged on parts of an agreement under which it would, among other things, import more U.S. computer chips...
...slashing of federal funds to social programs, work programs and education has constructed prohibitive barriers to economic and social advancement in the Black community. A National Urban League report issued in January of 1987 asserted that the Reagan Administration's domestic policies were and are "morally unjust, economically unfair, and have widened the economic gap between the races...
...several concerned Kirkland students and tutors into discussing these problems in an open forum with the masters and senior tutor, who were a receptive audience. It is this kind of progressive action that should recieve attention from other members of the house and the Harvard community, not rehashes of unfair, inappropriate, and dated stereotypes of Kirkland residents...
Even workers who have not found a pay equity problem at Harvard charge that the University pay scale is unfair. "Harvard needs not to pay equally, but to pay more," one worker says...
Other faculty members said they thought Bok'sreview was unfair because the external reviewcommittee did not consider Dalton's qualificationsin relation to other professors tenured the sameyear. That inquiry, they said, would have revealedthat Dalton was the victim of discrimination...