Word: unfairly
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...lottery form you don't rank your picks in the order of interest, which means all four of them are equally important. Suppose Group A is seriously eager to go to Lowell, and Group B doesn't really care and just happens to randomly pick it. It will be unfair for A if the selections of A and B are weighted on the same grounds. If B gets into Lowell and A doesn't, which is theorectically very possible, neither group would be happy. And there are also occasions when you are assigned to some house you never put down...
...open question period of the Faculty meeting, Mansfield charged that the University's guidelines concentrate on the use of power to gain sexual favors and overlook the use of sexual favors to gain power. He claimed that Harvard's guidelines are unfair to men, and that female seduction, when used to advance one's career, should be classified as harassment. Although we agree with the letter of Mansfield's sentiment, the spirit is some-what lacking. Classifying female seduction as sexual harassment would be impractical and almost meaningless...
...mind, this result would be unfair, because since 1976--when free agency was implemented--city size has not been significantly correlated with winning. (In other words, large city teams have not been more successful than small city teams...
...keep it reasonable and honest. On our fair campus, that individual is Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53. Once again, Professor Mansfield has hit the nail right on the head. At a faculty meeting last week, he pointed out that Harvard's sexual harassment guidelines are unfair to men and violate academic freedom...
...deal may not go through, and with its demise the three-decade-old edifice of affirmative action may begin to crumble. Over Frank Washington's protests of unfair treatment, the House voted to repeal the FCC tax provision, and the Senate Finance Committee is poised this week to limit it. But that's just the start. The Republicans do not debate whether affirmative action will be dismantled, only how quickly. And many Democrats accept the inevitable. President Clinton is reviewing all 160 affirmative-action programs, and he is expected to conclude that at least some of them must...