Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After reading Jeffrey Zucker's "The Scouting Report" for the Harvard vs. Dartmouth game (October 19)--particularly his anlaysis of the kicking game--I feel the article was unfair and written without his consultation of the statistics...
...National Labor Relations Board for a number of instances of illegal harrassment of employees and continues to harrass and dismiss employees who support unionization. The company has broken 19 unions in the last 20 years. In addition Coors has been implicated in hazardous waste dumping and in unfair employment practices...
Until a 1975 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit, Coors employees included only 7 percent women, 6 percent Chicanos and three percent Blacks. Female and elderly workers have charged their employer harassment, discrimination, and attempts to drive them out of the company by giving them particularly strenuous tasks and schedules. Unfair demands included requiring them to work back-to-back shifts, graveyard shifts and in some instances 14 days...
...their political demands were not met, she and the other Britons would be killed along with the Americans. Says she: "I remember thinking I didn't even know what their demands were, and that they might kill me for something I didn't know anything about. It seemed so unfair." On the bridge, one of the gunmen fired more shots and then ordered De Rosa to sail in a northeasterly direction toward the Syrian port of Tartus. A hijacker brandishing a submachine gun kept De Rosa under constant guard...
Newspapers, under the well-known New York Times vs. Sullivan Supreme Court decision, are allowed to be unfair, and in some circumstances even inaccurate, in order to ensure "uninhibited, robust and wide-open" public debate. Yet oddly enough the unregulated printed press has become as tamely balanced in its coverage and comment as are radio and TV. For fairness has caught on with the public; this is what it wants from journalism. Only in two outposts of journalism is lively vituperation still to be found--on a newspaper's sports pages and in political journals of left and right...