Word: unfairly
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There may be a Republican primary contest in New York after all. A federal judge has struck down GOP rules for New York's presidential primary on the ground that they set unfair barriers to would-be candidates. (To reach the ballot, each must collect tens of thousands of signatures from registered Republicans in all 31 state districts.) Under the order by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman, the Party must allow candidates on the Republican ballot if they collect 1.41 percent from each district (about 150 signatures), more in line with the Democrats' requirements. TIME's Laurence Barrett says Korman...
...October 9, 1995 an article appeared in the newest conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard, criticizing the government department for its affirmative action policies in graduate admissions. Characterizing the department's policy as "race norming"--an unfair admissions process where blacks are compared solely with other blacks--the author insinuates that unqualified minority students are admitted into the department and white students, as a consequence, are unfairly rejected. The article claims, in addition, that once admitted, these students are provided "free rides" irrespective of financial need. The moral of the story contrived by the article is that Harvard University...
...search process was unfair to the existing leaders of PBH. More importantly, it attempted to put too much control over Brooks House into the hands of those who, however well-meaning, have insufficient ties to local communities and experience in working with student-run programs. In order to protect the integrity of PBH's commitments within the communities served as well as to its staff and student leaders, PBH unanimously resolved to distance itself from the University by incorporating the staff component of Brooks House under Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc., instead of under the University...
...have had instances where an undergraduate TF graded an assignment of mine in a way I though to be unfair," DeWitt says. "But when I asked another TF or the professor to check over the work, they were happy to do so and get back to me. I can live with this...
Saro-Wiwa, a nominee for the 1996, Nobel Peace Prize, was one of nine members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People hanged after a murder trial that was widely condemned as unfair by the world community...