Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well up in seniors around commencement time, I have nonetheless often been haunted by the intensity with which this senior spoke, almost as if pleading with me at the beginning of my career as a teacher to attend to the problem, to make things different. I thought it an unfair request, of course, especially since the fault seemed to me to lie entirely with him. He obviously hadn't had the sense to "take advantage" of the great resources of Harvard...
...Nixon, with justification, thought it would come with some shouts of joy and relief, some ringing declarations of "Hail to the Chief." Not so. That strange struggle has so upset rationality that there was almost more carping during the signing of the cease-fire than before. It is unfair to Nixon...
Henry V. A milestone Shakespearean film. Directing his first film, Laurence Olivier tried to bring a good performance of Shakespeare to a larger and more varied audience than would ever come to the theatre. Some highbrow critics found his film disappointing and unsophisticated the same unfair criticism leveled at more recent films of Shakespeare--but the audiences loved both the spectacular Battle of Agincourt and Olivier's acting...
...shopping center or an office building. Tax benefits accrue to his tenants as well. Owners of mobile homes, which are regulated by state motor-vehicle bureaus instead of by local assessors, frequently pay lower taxes than they would on conventional homes-a system that many mayors consider unfair. For that reason, some communities have placed a moratorium on new mobile-home parks. By taking advantage of tax shelters and using mostly borrowed money, Carlsberg aims at a 9% return on his investment. Often he does much better. Last year the Carlsberg Financial Corp., which he owns outright, had after...
...sometimes be wrong not to end a pregnancy: "It would have been extremely immoral for me not to have an abortion when I did. There were circumstances having to do with my family, my studies, my future, my health. Taking these factors into account, it would have been grossly unfair to me, to the child and to my family to have carried a pregnancy to full term...