Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stature from his successful organization of the Washington march, he is not nearly as threatening as his rhetoric makes him seem. "I abhor his racist and bigoted statements," says Laura Washington, the black editor and publisher of the Chicago Reporter, a newsletter on race relations. "They are counterproductive and unfair. But it's important for whites not to put too much stock in what he says." Loury says Farrakhan is "the leader of a black fascist sect. His people are disciplined, orderly, militant, reminiscent of the Brownshirts. But they are not Hitler Youth taking over society...
Terming rebukes of the U.N. "unfair," Egypt's Ali Dessouki, dean of economics and political science at Cairo University, observes, "When the big powers are in agreement, the U.N. performs. When they aren't, the U.N. is paralyzed." Security Council members, who ensure that no Secretary-General will pose a challenge to their individual authority, could invest the office with Bismarckian clout at any time. Short of that, they could put a quietus to the outmoded system of rotating the chief's job among "nonaligned" parts of the world...
...this point the author is unfair. The question is how anyone could not read the play along political lines. People view Heidi as an emblem for the women's movement itself, so that her decision is seen as a defeat for feminism. Wasserstein, who was herself an activist not unlike Heidi, wrote the play to confront her resignation from superwoman-hood, and the sadness she felt at remaining single with no children. Heidi's path mirrored the one she herself would have chosen, but for ardent feminists, this...
Though graduate board members could not be reached for comment, current student members said yesterday that they consider the proposed changes unfair...
...hoped you were going to say it superseded," Mansfield said, who added the document was "unfair to men, and by that I mean males, and in violation of academic freedom...