Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton was preferred by 42% of those surveyed, vs. 41% for the congressional Republicans. Clinton is up 12 points since early December, while the G.O.P. is down five points during the same period. Partly because of his abrasive style and partly because of Democratic characterizations of the contract as unfair to the poor, poll ratings for Gingrich have become more negative. Some 47% of those polled disapproved of his handling of his job as Speaker, while 40% approved. Just a month ago, his negative rating in this category was seven points lower...
...YEAR-OLD WORKING MALE already overwhelmed trying to survive financially, why am I paying thousands of dollars a year to support Social Security recipients, many of whom don't need it, when I know I cannot hope to receive the same benefits when I get older? It is unfair, and I resent it. What makes it worse is that the government raids our Social Security funds, turning them into bonds that it will later have to tax us to pay off. Kill Social Security? By all means. Let's put it out of our misery...
...Pakistan most appropriately belonged in the same issue [Algeria, Pakistan, March 20]. Both stories reveal the hypocrisy and ambivalence of the West. Many Westerners are indifferent to the brutalities of the Algerian government because they justifiably fear that a takeover by the Islamists will mean savage beheadings, amputations and unfair treatment of women and minorities. The irony is that similar laws were instituted by General Zia ul-Haq in Pakistan, whose government had the full blessings of the West. The only way to defuse the situation in Algeria is to hold a free general election and require the Islamic Salvation...
...Grossly unfair to whites...
...committee, chaired by Professor of Sociology Peter V. Marsden, also acknowledged a continuing sense among members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) that last year's review of fringe benefits changes was unfair...