Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took the oppression of 20 million South Africans for Harvard to beef up Yard security, for freshmen to lash out against unfair frisbee rules, and for tourists to stop cozying up to the Statue of Three Lies...
Harvard is not the only place where sports have often been used to dismiss the serious concerns of college students. At Berkeley, in 1964, when a large number of students protested what they felt were arbitrary and unfair administrative decisions, a football pep rally threatened to become political counter-demonstration...
...merit-based system also might be unfair to students who, recovering from a freshmen slump, brought their grades up during their upperclass years. A built-in "Horatio Alger clause" would clearly be in order--entitling those with rising grade point averages to bump slumping students from their rooms...
...their private time as well as during working hours. Because the tests do not reveal when a drug was used, workers could be penalized or fired for what they do in the evening or at weekend parties. Workers' rights advocates maintain that corporate antidrug policies can be particularly unfair in the case of marijuana, which has been virtually decriminalized in some states and cities. Says Los Angeles Labor Lawyer Glenn Rothner: "Termination for marijuana use, or worse, for simply having minute traces of marijuana in the body when tested is sentencing these employees to the equivalent of corporate capital punishment...
Developing countries see drug abuse as America's dilemma, not theirs. Says Bolivian Interior Minister Fernando Barthelemy: "It is unfair to put most of the weight on the coca-producing countries when it is a simple law of demand. American and Western European consumers keep doping more and more. Consequently more coca is planted." For that reason, U.S. corporations that try to stem the demand for drugs are getting right to the heart of the problem...