Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Starting to add contingencies onto our non-ordered choice problems is the wrong precedent to set. No student should get preferential treatment. Loading up non-ordered choice with extras for students who felt wronged their first year will make the system complicated, unfair and perhaps logistically impossible...
They apparently believe that low lottery numbers in the spring would be fair compensation for the cruel fate of being assigned to 29 G. The Committee on House Life (COHL) should not allow this unworkable, unfair and logically flawed demand to come to fruition...
...applications, about to be issued, to figure out a host of revised rules that take effect Jan. 1. In many cases, the goal will be to look poorer on paper than they really are. Just how unethical is it, they wonder, to outsmart a system they feel is itself unfair? Parents contend that they are penalized if they save for college or their children take part-time jobs, since such savings reduce the amount of aid they can qualify for. Families who rent their homes may now appear just as rich on paper as mansion dwellers. Whites grumble about affirmative...
...apply regulations set by the government? Says Kalman Chany, president of Campus Consultants, a Manhattan-based firm that advises families on aid strategies: "If your accountant showed you a legal way to save $4,000 on your income tax this year, would you take it?" What would really be unfair, he says, would be to deny parents information on the wisest use of the rules. "All we're trying to do is work within the system that exists now and help middle-income Americans benefit from some of their tax dollars," explains Rob Reid of Educational Planning Service in Atlanta...
Opposition to Question One has been coordinated by The Committee Against Unfair Taxation. The group appeals for money to be spent not on smoking prevention programs, but on issues such as AIDS, homelessness and poverty. In fact, the committee is entirely financed by tobacco industry executives. Their sudden concern for social problems in Massachusetts is just a ploy to divert attention from the fatal dangers of smoking...