Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More important, by lending its name and publicity money to one of its own, the council gives the small, non-representative group an unfair advantage in promoting its money-making venture...
...Jeffries and David Duke pose a danger to society. But I worry about the distortions and the inflammatory rhetoric that have been used against him. It seems that these can only play into his strategy of presenting himself as a victim of white lynching. I want to address three unfair criticisms of Jeffries or the BSA that appeared in the February 7 Crimson editorial piece by Allan S. Galper and Kenneth A. Katz...
Since I've mentioned his "citadel of white supremacy" tag, I might as well point out that the way it was quoted out of context in the February 6 Crimson was manipulative and unfair. White people who have tried hard to be sensitive to minority concerns must have found this a bitter and unjustified rebuke. But to be fair to the Black students who clapped when he used that line, however, we should remember when it cropped up. Jeffries was only making the claim that cultural canon in America consistently undervalues the achievements of Black people, and that the universities...
...found Herb, and it's been wonderful and fantastic," she says. "I've since realized how wrong it was for me to avoid sharing my life with someone. I held back not only because of doubts about passing the gene on to my children but because it would be unfair for my mate to be burdened, financially and emotionally, with a Huntington's spouse. It would be too much of a sacrifice. But Herb is willing to accept whatever happens...
...Writers such as James Fallows (More Like Us), Clyde Prestowitz (Trading Places) and Karel van Wolferen (The Enigma of Japanese Power) argue that it is because Japan remains fundamentally different from the U.S. in economy and culture and is committed to playing by unfair rules that discriminate against imports. There is truth in that: Japan is a profoundly communal society organized on almost every level to protect the interests of the Japanese -- the welfare of the nation, its business community and its people are one and the same...