Word: unfairly
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DETROIT: Saying that Detroit Newspapers Inc. used unfair labor practices, a federal judge today ordered the company to reinstate striking workers to their former positions. The decision, handed down by Judge Thomas Wilks, is a major victory for the six union locals, which went on strike July 13, 1995 over contract issues. If the ruling stands up to future challenges, the company will be forced to reinstate all "unfair labor practice strikers" and displace any replacement workers hired since the initial walkout. Approximately 2,500 workers participated in the strike and about 1,200 replacement workers took their place soon...
...death penalty is that it is dispensed by a justice system that favors some defendants over others. In February, the American Bar Association called for a moratorium on executions because "the administration of the death penalty, far from being fair and consistent, is instead a haphazard maze of unfair practices with no internal consistency...
Proponents of testing respond that while it may be unfair to deny graduation to a kid who has passed his or her courses, it's also unfair to let a student graduate who can't read or do math. "You've got to start sometime saying to kids that the tests of the real world are going to flunk you anyway," says E.D. Hirsch Jr., author of Cultural Literacy. "Tough love is the right kind of fairness. And you have to change the system with shock treatment at some point...
...true, Wilde replies, "I rarely think anything I write is true." He was a victim, of course, of Victorian prudery but also of the perennial clash between the aesthetic and the moral, the realm of art and the realm of life. Wilde realizes too late that it's an unfair fight. "One says things flippantly," he apologizes wanly at one point, "when one ought to speak more seriously." Has an artist ever spoken a sadder epitaph...
Officer pilots in command of nuclear weapons cannot be allowed to lie and disobey direct orders without repercussions. For an officer to commit adultery with the spouse of an enlisted person is most reprehensible and inexcusable. The Air Force tried to treat Lieut. Flinn more gently, and it is unfair to fault the service because of Flinn's lying about the adulterous relationship and her refusal to follow a direct order. GEORGE G. DANIELS Orlando...