Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tanaka, who is up for re-election in December, is reluctant to take that stand and risk angering special interests in the business community. So, his program may well not stop the pile-up in Japan's reserves, which the U.S. and other nations view as evidence of unfair Japanese trade practices. Japan's reserves are officially estimated to be $16 billion, but adding in money that the government has deposited in foreign banks and invested in U.S. securities brings the actual total closer to $22 billion. Whether Tanaka's program will succeed is uncertain...
Power. Sometimes McGovern has said too little to the ethnics, sometimes too much. After criticizing quotas as unfair to ethnics, he pledged that he would provide jobs for nationalities in reasonable proportion to their numbers in the population. "You've got to remember that never have we had a Polish American on the U.S. Supreme Court," he declared. "Never have we had an Italo-American on the Supreme Court. We've never had a Greek American." Last week at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in Manhattan, McGovern pointed up his problem with ethnics to his largely Catholic...
PRICES AND JOBS. These two issues are inseparably linked. It would be a crude and unfair oversimplification to say that Nixon is "for unemployment" or that McGovern is "for inflation." But each would face a cruel choice of which to fight harder, and their approaches would be quite different...
...perhaps both fitting and a little unfair that all this activity enveloped what George McGovern deemed the most important speech of his campaign. His subject was the war, the issue that made his candidacy, the issue to which he is most deeply committed, the issue that still matters most to the American people however subliminally it sometimes appears to be moored...
...relation to the total supply of hard drugs on the East Coast--amounts to less than 10 per cent of Fixyou, Inc.'s total business. "It is a highly-diversified company," he writes, "with interests in movie theaters, helicopter manufacture, watch bands and massage parlor franchises. It is, therefore, unfair to assume that the Harvard capital is going to help finance the drug traffic rather than, let us say, helicopters...