Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...networks have got entangled in a separate dispute. NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN have refused to air two half-hour G.O.P. advertisements against the Clinton plan, both paid for by billionaire Ross Perot. Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour finds this unfair, since last month NBC aired a two- hour, prime-time special on health care funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit group with close ties to the Clinton reform effort...
...minute.WHAT DO YOU THINK? According to a recent TIME/CNN poll, blacks and whites disagree sharply on the kind of justice O.J. Simpson can expect. Two-thirds of whites polled said O.J. Simpson will get a fair trial--just about the same fraction of blacks who said they expect an unfair trial. Another tidbit from the same poll: 42 percent of whites said they believed the case against Simpson was very strong; only 22 percent of blacks agreed. Post your view in the Crime folder, under...
...there is another, more general point here. Basically, Paul Siemens is wasting his last pre-college summer (and some money, too) with a lawsuit. And for what? To prove that a system of 30 years standing that his school used to determine valedictorians is unfair. Got some news, Paul. Ain't gonna happen. Never. The court system will not tell the secondary school system in America that it must allow students to determine the fairness of its class ranking systems...
Paul has convinced himself that he's doing this for some high, noble purpose. Nope. He's doing this so he can be NO. 1. You notice that he only found the school's system unfair after the fact. If he had gotten the top ranking out of this, he'd find it perfectly just...
...unfair? Sorry. Many things in life are unfair. If Paul hadn't gotten to be valedictorian because of the color of his skin, that would be unfair. If he had been denied it because the principal didn't like him, that would be unfair. If he had been second-ranked because someone had altered his grades in the records, that would be unfair...