Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consumers in some areas are complaining about rising rates, shoddy service and long afternoons of waiting for the cable repairman to show up. Broadcasters are arguing that cable enjoys an unfair advantage in the marketplace. Most worrisome of all to the industry, Washington is paying heed. Legislation is pending in both houses of Congress that would impose new restrictions on cable. And the Federal Communications Commission, for years a deregulatory friend, is making noises about reining in the industry...
MYTHS. Many blacks believe Korean merchants have unfair advantages, drawing start-up funds from the South Korean government. In fact, most immigrants acquire their shops largely with savings they brought from Korea. They enjoy the tradition of the keh, clubs to which they contribute and from which they can draw loans. In New York City the 2,500-member Korean Produce Association has the clout to buy good produce at favorable prices. But few greengrocers are truly prosperous. They put their entire families to work at low, if any, wages, toil incredibly long hours and still average between...
...Trade Representative took an abrupt turn. She became an unexpected defender, thanks to her sudden determination to bring a more conciliatory tone to U.S.-Japan relations. At Hills' urging, President Bush decided last week to remove Japan from a U.S. hit list of countries cited for unfair trade practices. Said Hills, whose new attitude inflamed many hawks in Congress: "Perhaps Japan had the farthest to go, but it moved farther and faster than any of our other trading partners...
...prohibiting tenure offers to visiting professors. But that technicality did not blunt Bell's anger at the school's hiring policies, which he once characterized as an attempt to recruit people "who look black and think white." Bell, who is black, now concedes that the description was "a bit unfair." But he still sees a "gap between the school's saying 'We're trying as hard as we can for diversity' and the hiring record." That record fully supports Bell's complaint: despite the administration's attempts to increase minority representation, the law-school staff of 60 tenured faculty boasts...
...demonstrators believe the Front holds an unfair advantage in parliamentary elections slated for May 20. Some charge that the Front may attempt to rig the balloting. Critics say almost 90% of the group's members are former Communists. Iliescu's vow that a "return to the past is impossible" has failed to reassure his detractors. Says Sergiu Cunescu, chairman of the center-right Social Democratic Party: "People live in fear...