Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employees should not be forced to hear the administration's side from the people who are responsible for hiring them, approving their wage increases and passing judgement on their work. Supervisors cannot just put forth information, because they give that information an unfair advantage and a threatening aura...
...meetings with supervisors and in the booklet, the University advocated that bosses criticize the union and told them a number of ways to do so. These tactics put supervisors between a rock and a hard place, forcing them into unsure legal situations and unfair ethical relations with their employees. Moreover, many supervisors support the union effort or just don't want to be involved on either side. Supervisors--themselves employees who must answer to other supervisors--should not be forced to tow the administration line, or fear that their jobs are endangered because of their opinions...
...polls. Gephardt was frustrated and demoralized; he just wasn't connecting with voters. His technical speeches on trade were either boring or offputting. So Gephardt suggested using examples of American products that cost much more in Asia. This, he thought, would provide concrete evidence of what he meant by unfair trade practices. A diligent researcher went out and found examples of apples that would cost $5 in Japan if they could be sold there at all, and a Ford Taurus sedan that cost $76,000 in South Korea...
...time did Thernstrom downplay racism in American history. He described the Jim Crow system in plain terms that any new-comer to the subject could have understood. He stated clearly that is was an unfair and unequal system that failed to provide a solution to the problem of race relations...
...accuse Harvard of racial discrimination, with all the ugly baggage that accompanies the word, is grossly unfair. Harvard's primary goal is to develop talent in its many forms; it is not to develop equal admission rates. If Hsu truly wishes to help Asian American students gain entrance into Harvard, I suggest he start by taking his mind off the different acceptance rates and instead go out and absorb this campus. For until he understands what makes Harvard Harvard, his efforts to increase the Asian American acceptance rate will be futile. David...