Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...onslaught is unfair. But even ardent Jeffersonians admit that the man was an insoluble puzzle. The contradictions in his character and his ideas could be breathtaking. That the author of the Declaration of Independence ("All men are created equal") not only owned and worked slaves at Monticello but also may have kept one of them, Sally Hemings, as a mistress--allegedly fathering children with her but never freeing her or them--was merely the most dramatic of his inconsistencies...
Dealing with a possible consequence of his campaign finance reform proposal, McCain responded to charges by Republican presidential frontrunner and Texas Gov. George W. Bush that it would give an unfair advantage to the Democratic Party...
...political side, Tudjman developed the country by introducing infrastructure improvements and economic privatization. Thanks to these large projects, the entire center of the capital of Zagreb was reconstructed. Privatization proved to be a more difficult obstacle, and many believe it was conducted in an unfair manner, giving preference to his party associates. However, the economy did not fall into depression, and Tudjman was able to introduce a stable currency, the kuna, avoiding the rampant inflation of the old Yugoslav dinar...
...maybe the ribbing is a little unfair. Despite NASA's can-do public attitude, expecting a perfect record when you're sending machines across 50 million miles of empty space to an alien world would be naive. But trying to do it in a slapdash fashion doesn't help. "There's a difference," grouses John Pike, a space expert with the Federation of American Scientists, "between cheap and cheaper...
...Microsoft's operating-systems division, which makes Windows, into its own company. That would track the logic of Judge Jackson's findings of fact: that it's not illegal for Microsoft to have an operating-systems monopoly, but it is illegal to leverage the monopoly to gain an unfair advantage in other markets. Carving Windows out of Microsoft would probably be sufficiently dramatic to please the Justice Department. It might not thrill Microsoft, but it would be preferable to any remedy that required ongoing government supervision of its actions and products. And it's a solution that could find favor...