Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whereas other Presidents might have viewed such direct involvement as unfair interference with the free market -- or maybe just declasse mercantilism -- Clinton, the putative populist, has turned out to be a natural in the role of salesman. It is not, of course, a selfless role: Administration officials maintain that by boosting U.S. exports, 13 million new American jobs can be created by the year 2000. To drive home the point after the President helped close the Boeing deal, Vice President Al Gore visited a Boeing plant in Seattle to announce the good news to cheering workers there...
...There are people who can't drive and yet their kids are being taken around," Nero said. "I thought that was unfair. In my committee, I said I wanted to make it half [the deductible] to the committee and half split between the counselors...
...next asked her if the boy would be back on campus. I felt my daughter had a right to know if he would be. Again, Dean Hewitt avoided answering me. This was also confidential, I was told. I said it would be unfair for my daughter to be unprepared for meeting the boy on campus if that were to happen. She said it probably never would. That was as close as she came to telling me that the boy would not be back...
...city of Cambridge, as one of only three Massachusetts municipalities where rent control is legal, argued that it would be unfair for the entire citizenry of Massachusetts to make a decision that would impact just three cities...
...another admiral taken the fall over an incident that was actually the fault of those below him? Anyone who thinks that picking off admirals is an unfair tactic in the sexual-harassment wars should look at the 10-inch file in the Hansen case, and at the fact that it took the intervention of three members of Congress -- Senator Paul Wellstone and Representative Bruce Vento in addition to Durenberger -- to get the Navy brass to pay attention. Durenberger told TIME last week that the Navy still hasn't given him an unedited report on the Hansen case...