Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Administrative Board later put the students on disciplinary probation, the protestors charged that the punishment was unfair because their attempted blockade had not broken University rules...
Your editorial on March 4th is very unfair...
...Semiconductor and Advanced Micro Devices. For nearly two years they have vigorously complained that a vital and innovative industry was being destroyed not by bad business practices but by predatory competition. In a series of complaints filed with the U.S. Government, the industry alleged that the Japanese were using unfair trade practices in their zeal to penetrate the U.S. market. The smoking gun: a memorandum issued by Hitachi executives instructing their salesmen to undercut U.S. firms by 10%, no matter what the cost...
...President clings to him even in the face of his wife's obvious distaste. Don Regan, so bumbling and insensitive in high profile, has reduced his visibility dramatically, a move that has at last become him in his ill-starred winter. / But it may be too late. Fair or unfair, there is a national perception that Regan has guided both the President and himself mindlessly toward humiliation. For the moment, he refuses to leave on his own, fostering the unfortunate image of two stubborn old men huddled together in ignorance and isolation...
DeLillo is also on dubious footing in tangling with the romantic notion of insanity as a kind of anti-societal enlightenment. Besides already having been flogged to death, the notion of the insane as somehow lucky is grotesquely unfair to real-life residents of psychiatric institutions, who suffer the completely unromantic, destructive, and painful effects of mental illness...