Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem unfair, and we did grumble, but we could only entertain boys in our rooms for two hours on two Sunday afternoons a year. Off-campus houses offered much more informality. One could share a sandwich with a boy in the ancient kitchens there and feel a little more natural than in the dorm calling rooms...
When American businessmen complain about unfair Japanese competition, high on their gripe list is the value of the yen. Many executives contend that restrictions in the Japanese financial system have kept the yen artificially cheap compared with the dollar, and thus have made it easier for Japanese manufacturers to keep prices low when selling their products abroad. In a speech in Detroit earlier this month, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca declaimed, "The Japanese yen is undervalued by at least 15%, and everyone in Washington agrees on that...
...Administrative Committee, and especially as a journalist, she has a right to express those opinions. But she must state them in an area of the newspaper clearly set aside for subjective arguments, preferably the Editorial or Opinion pages. It is both intellectually and journalistically dishonest, as well as unfair to the reader, for her to have accorded so much importance to her own biases in the context of what was supposed to have been a news story...
This may be an unfair characterization of our society's lack of compassion. It may be that televising executions will cause people to realize that capital punishment is a barbaric institution. Maybe, as a result of the public exposure, the outcry will be so great that the process will be stopped altogether. P.T. Barnum once told us we'd never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the public. These days, you probably wouldn't go broke overestimating its acceptance of brutality...
That charge is not only unfair-it misses the point that there are substantially more legitimate doubts about the wisdom of this policy in particular and about the President's approach to complicated national security issues in general. Reagan has often been drawn instinctively to simplistic, gimmicky solutions to problems that entail layers upon layers of historical background and technical complexity. Reagan's early fascination with supply-side economics in its least sophisticated form and his advocacy of a two-China policy are but two examples. He abandoned both during the crash course in realism that comes with...