Word: unfairly
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...when blacks enthusiastically fought for independence in the hope that their patriotic fervor would prove them worthy of freedom and citizenship. In this century, while blacks were generally supportive of both world wars, their discontent erupted publicly during Vietnam, when Martin Luther King Jr. and others opposed an unfair draft that conscripted the disadvantaged while allowing many sons of the middle class to escape military service. Those divided loyalties continue to tug at blacks today and will add to the burden of unfinished business awaiting the homecoming soldiers...
Such favored treatment for the customers of big banks was a heated issue last week, as consumers and politicians braced for a possible wave of new banking failures. "The situation is patently unfair -- just plain wrong," said Henry Gonzalez, the Texas Democrat who heads the House Banking Committee. Concurred John Jacob, president of the National Urban League, which lost more than $200,000 at Freedom National because of the government's double standard: "I think it is grossly discriminatory against banks that happen to be small." Amid the outcry, the FDIC said it was reviewing its policy at Freedom National...
...images of suffering, invading the privacy of victims and allowing emotion to obscure larger concerns of national policy. Above all, they may be so skeptical about war in general, or a current war in particular, that they do not root for the American side. Journalists regard this characterization as unfair, but audiences may not be so sure. The U.S. public seemed unperturbed when the Pentagon hindered American reporters in covering the invasions of Grenada and Panama...
Criminal Justice (HBO). Forest Whitaker, portraying a man accused (justly or unjustly? We never know) of slashing a hooker, struggles through the grinding, $ insensitive and frequently unfair legal process. TV's docket is jammed with courtroom dramas, but few have been as unsparing, or as moving...
...touching on a crucial national problem, which is, What kind of a society do we demand to have? To place the responsibility for that on the health-science community is, I would say, unfair. The responsibility for that judgment rests with the entire country's priorities. Why do we undervalue the young? Why are our disadvantaged minorities so sick? Why is education in such horrendous shape in math and science? We live in a remarkably complicated society in which we have been incapable of having all our citizens share in the fruits of our national labors. But it would...