Word: unfairly
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Perhaps it was his background as a community organizer helping laid-off steel workers find work, or his promises to close the book on discredited trickle-down economics and renegotiate unfair trade deals. Few groups were as happy about the election of Barack Obama as organized labor, which felt it finally had a champion after more than three decades of being marginalized...
Congress tried the process again in 1804, when it voted to impeach Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase on charges of bad conduct. As a judge, Chase was overzealous and notoriously unfair; he ordered a Revolutionary War veteran hanged for treason after he refused to pay taxes, and he found the author of a book critical of President John Adams guilty of sedition. But Chase never committed a crime - he was just incredibly bad at his job. The Senate acquitted him on every count...
...exams, the Administrative Board has the sole authority to decide individual exceptions for students. Clearly, it is a rarity to be excused. And so far, the process of excusing students from exams has been shrouded by a lack of clarity. Specifically, exemptions seem to have been given on arbitrary, unfair grounds. For example, a petition was “recently denied because a student had only a general ticket to the inauguration,” whereas “a petition was recently approved because a student and her family had been extensively involved in the Obama campaign, had reserved...
...unrest in 2006 centered on a new youth labor contract that detractors claimed handed an unfair advantage to employers. The government ultimately capitulated on the scheme, one of more than two dozen such victories French students have claimed since 2000. But while the majority of those victories came after peaceful demonstrations, France has a history of protest turning violent?student and otherwise. Some observers say the situation today is particularly volatile and unpredictable. "As in Greece and many European countries, the unions, opposition parties, and associations that usually take youth movements under their wing and organize protests in France...
...dogs' reactions to the unfair distribution of rewards is called "inequity aversion" - when an animal acts to stop perceived inequalities within its social group - and it's a defining characteristic of social, or cooperative, species. "They wanted the same reward for the same work," says Paul Morris, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Portsmouth who specializes in animal behavior. Morris is quick to explain that the study's results aren't anthropomorphic: "I'm not saying that dog jealousy is precisely like human jealousy." Instead, he says, the dogs likely experienced a primitive form of envy...