Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...honest, not being valedictorian hasn't mattered in my life. Which is why, perhaps, I read the story of Paul Siemens '98 with such disbelief. Paul, in case you don't know, is suing his school district for unfairness. Not because he was forbidden from taking an important class, not because he was denied help because of his race, but because he thinks their system of determining valedictorians is unfair...
...other words, the city said it would be unfair for the entire citizenry of Massachusetts to make this decision, when its results would impact just three cities...
...this fact did not seem to trouble Siemens' attorney, Barry Kantrowitz. The attorney, Barry Kantrowitz. The attorney compared his client's struggle against unfair entrenched policies to the injustices suffered by Black slaves and disenfranchised women...
Siemens also claims that the policy is not only unfair but was not made clear to students...
...their enthusiastic press releases were partly political. Observes Jim Pissot, Washington State director of the National Audubon Society: "The Act itself is now endangered." Indeed, the law is currently up for reauthorization in Congress, and property owners and developers are working hard to have it weakened. The law is unfair to their business interests, they say. Besides, they insist, the eagle's comeback has much more to do with the 1972 banning of DDT, which weakened the shells of birds' eggs, and with increased public awareness of the eagle's plight than with the law itself...