Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invasion of privacy, as well as unfair and insulting, to ask a gay or lesbian couple questions other than the same questions that are asked of married couples," said Cabot House senior tutor Roland L. Dunbrack '85, the HUGGABLESS president. "Gay graduate couples applying for [Harvard] housing should have the same rights as married couples," he added...
American cigarette makers want Carla Hills, the U.S. Trade Representative, to break down Thailand's import barriers so that they can charge into that country's market. Specifically, the industry filed a petition under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 accusing Thailand of unfair trade practices. Hills is investigating the claim. But the American tobacco lobby is bitterly opposed by U.S. public-health advocates and the Thai government, which has the somewhat contradictory motives of protecting its citizens' health and defending the interests of its entrenched cigarette monopoly...
...skeptics perceive an Oedipal element behind the enterprise. After joining the small-paper business launched by his father, the younger Ingersoll clashed with him early and often, tried to break free, then forced him out of the partnership in a financial settlement that the elder Ingersoll considered unfair. Thereafter, father and son spoke infrequently. Ingersoll blames the tension largely on his stepmother; at his father's funeral in 1985, the widow and the namesake son held separate receptions...
Forbidding free distribution also gives the paid-subscription Crimson a grossly unfair distribution advantage over the free publications, which translates into an unwarranted financial advantage. What a dull, unchallenged campus it would be if only the Crimson could deliver to students' rooms...
...WHAT is unfair, however, is that Frank's sexual preference has been used against him. The Associated Press, in a story about Frank, included in its second paragraph that a poll revealed that 46 percent of Americans thought Frank should resign. Several paragraphs later, the story explained that 45 percent of those surveyed thought that no gay should serve in Congress...