Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waging a trade war on two fronts. In Congress, he was pressing for passage of the Gephardt amendment, which would add protectionist teeth to the pending trade bill by mandating quotas or tariffs if a rival nation sustained a large trade surplus with the U.S. and refused to eliminate unfair practices. Campaigning in Iowa, he became the first Democratic contender to challenge Hart aggressively on a major issue. Somewhat unfairly, Gephardt linked Hart with Ronald Reagan: "Frankly, I'm disturbed that the front runner in our party echoes the President and offers nothing new on trade." (Reagan took a slap...
...hope I can be forgiven if I take this a little personally. As a (relatively) conservative student active in political organizations here on campus, I resent the implication that I and my fellow student "new" conservatives are racists. Normally, one would hope, such grossly unfair and provacative accusations would simply be ignored, but this kind of charge is not new, and (unhappily) has become something of a staple of liberal campus politics...
Durenberger decided to go public with what he knew after the Pollard affair began exacting a heavy price on Israel in the American press. Durenburger said he felt it was unfair for Israel to get all the blame for spying on an ally, while the CIA got off the hook. The senator made his public move after again approaching Casey with what he knew, and again being rebuffed...
...tried out for all the a cappella singing groups--Kroks, Dins, hell, even the Pitches," recalls Justice. "And none of them wanted me. I thought their policy was elitist and unfair, and that I could do something about...
...called Buettner-Janusch a psychopath; others say he made drugs in his lab for the perfectly legitimate purpose of testing the reactions of lemurs, that he did not deserve a criminal sentence, and that this latest incident of poisoned chocolates is simply evidence of a mind warped by an unfair trial and a harsh prison sentence...