Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Administration two years ago, he may have wanted to hide his footprints. Lindner wanted U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to help him pry open European markets, which rely on various tariffs and trade barriers effectively to shut out Lindner's bananas. Though hundreds of companies ask Washington to investigate unfair trade practices, the U.S. Trade Representative accepts only about 14 cases each year. Even fewer are taken to Geneva for resolution by the World Trade Organization. And only rarely do such cases make the cut when hardly any U.S. jobs are at stake; Chiquita employs most...
Despite China's decade-plus economic liberalization, its critics in the U.S. still see the country as a monolith obsessed with growing ever stronger through unfair trade practices. The view goes something like this: Beijing believes it can export whatever it wants while barring imports on any pretext it chooses. It can undercut other manufacturing nations by the use of cheap labor. It can steal ideas and ignore copyrights without much risk of retaliation. And it can essentially blackmail multinational companies into transferring jobs and technology as the price of cracking open a market of 1.2 billion people. Taken together...
...surface and beneath the waves of the novel. Critics mention patterns alluding to the Odyssey, Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick, but the most evident and important allusions are to the Odyssey itself and to James Joyce's towering modern interpretation of that epic, Ulysses. It's probably not unfair to say that Hall seems to be trying to create a contemporary, child's-scale version of Ulysses. The intriguing thing about Saskia is that her adventures, while densely packed with meaning, are also straightforwardly narrated; precocious kids--like the hero herself--will be able to read her adventures without...
...sometimes said all that's being bought and sold is merely "access," not government policy itself. But access is worthless if it doesn't affect policy, and experience has taught those who contribute that access works. And to state the obvious: it is unfair and undemocratic for those who buy access to have a bigger voice in government than those...
...When it comes to fairness, the SAT deserves an 'F,'" the center's president, Leslie R. Wolfe, said. "The SAT is unfair to young women, unfair to parents and unfair to colleges...