Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white buttons with the simple message "427 DAYS." That is the difference between the 444 days of captivity endured by the hostages seized at the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979 and the 17 days that the 39 taken off TWA 847 were held in Beirut. The comparison is unfair, but it was the kind that might stick in the public mind...
Many Asians complain that they are frequently the victims of racial prejudice. Lucie Cheng, head of the Asian Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, charges that administrators, intent on curbing the decline in white enrollment, are actually causing an unfair reduction in admissions of Asian students. It is a claim that officials stoutly deny. While Asians seeking to buy or rent homes suffer far less hostility than in the past, the tendency of many ethnic communities to settle in clusters still bothers some whites. During the rapid influx of Chinese into California's Monterey Park, for example...
...minute TV address, the President portrayed tax reform as nothing less than "a second American Revolution." If enacted by Congress, he predicted grandiosely, it would produce a "great new era of progress, the age of the entrepreneur." Reform is needed, he said, because the present tax system is "complicated, unfair, littered with gobbledygook and loopholes." Drawing a stark comparison between today's tax law and his proclaimed simpler and fairer plan, he implied that the choice for taxpayers will be | easy. In a phrase that became the slogan of his campaign-style blitz, Reagan exhorted: "America...
...more than that, the tax plan is Reagan's attempt to put his & indelible stamp on domestic policy. It is the culmination of practically every fight he has carried out in his political career: against high and progressive tax rates, ever expanding governmental powers, limitations on free enterprise, and unfair burdens on the American family. A firm believer in the worth of his own crusades, Ronald Reagan has joined a battle that excites him. It is quite possible that if he wins, the embattled U.S. taxpayer may wind up a victor...
...success exactly the kind of success we are most interested in fostering? Because this type cannot be predicted adequately, Klitgaard seems to say, let's ignore it. Yet this seems self-defeating, as we may then be forced to reward people for the wrong reasons according to some unfair standard of academic "merit" whereby some members of society have unequal advantages...