Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chips (a tax-exempt baking product) vs. chocolate kisses (candy, which is taxed), or a freshly bagged slice of pie (tax free) as opposed to a similarly sized prepackaged pie (taxable). While conservative talk-show hosts ridicule the new laws as regulation run amuck, liberal critics blister them as unfair: a worker's pretzel is subject to the tax, but a CEO's caviar...
...general increase in testosterone levels among potential candidates, who promise they won't "do a Dukakis" by allowing Republicans to get the rhetorical advantage. Senator TOM HARKIN of Iowa has a get-tough campaign strategy: "Always attack, never defend and never fight on their territory." Once Bush launches an unfair offensive, "I'm going to hit him right back between the eyes," snarls Harkin. Tennessee Senator AL GORE mixes lofty rhetoric with a downright bloodthirsty warning to George Bush. "You run with your heart and soul," he notes. But you also have to be willing to "rip the lungs...
Kessler is one member of the '60s generation who never lost the naive conviction that an individual can change the world. Deceptive food labeling troubles him because it is dishonest and unfair. And, without warning, he can break into a mini-sermon about the FDA: "There are 8,000 wonderful people here. They came here because they wanted to protect and promote the public health, and my job is to let them do their...
...protections for such victims, however, the legislature added the requirement , that the alleged act of rape or incest be reported to the police within one week for the abortion to be considered legal. Said the Governor: "((The law is)) going to be expensive to litigate, impossible to implement, totally unfair to women who have been brutalized and raped...
...questions raised about Thelma & Louise seem so weirdly inappropriate. Does it offer suitable "role models"? Is the "violence" its heroines mete out to their tormentors really "empowering" to women, or does it represent a feckless sacrifice of the high moral ground? Is its indiscriminate "male bashing" grossly unfair to an entire...