Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope," Epps said yesterday, "is that, come September, we will have a minimum of from 10 to 15 women in each House. If we cannot eventually increase the number of women in the Houses that have few, we will perpetuate an unfair situation...
...Your article on Australia [March 22] is a well-written, well-informed piece of news on current Australian politics. But your heading, "Fall of the Larrikin," is very unfair to John Grey Gorton. He may have some faults and would be quick to admit them, but a larrikin [hooligan], no. Rough-hewn and outspoken, yes. He is a tough, typical Aussie...
Nixon's new plan pleased contractors, though they would have preferred a wage-price freeze. In a public statement, the building unions denounced the order as "fundamentally unfair in applying strict controls to wages and a vague procedure with respect to profits and prices." Privately, union leaders were somewhat more conciliatory, offering to give the plan a fair trial. Many labor chiefs are embarrassed at some of the extravagant pay increases won by headstrong local union leaders, but under the Landrum-Griffin Act they have little power to intervene. Their publicly stated indignation at Nixon's plan...
...masochists, asks Justice Douglas, how can it be said to be utterly without social importance? Others argue, in effect, that no law is perfect; society must do the best it can. "The Sherman antitrust law forbids monopolies," says Political Scientist Reo Christenson. "What is a monopoly? What is an unfair trade practice? When is guilt proved beyond a reasonable doubt? Those indignant over the lack of specificity in obscenity laws are quite complacent about vagueness in laws they approve...
...UNIVERSITY seems to be determined to make this a confrontation on the issue of free speech and to use the disruption as grounds for mass expulsions from the University and a witch hunt among its Faculty. It would be grossly unfair and dishonest for the University to bill this solely as a confrontation between those who believe in free speech and those who do not. The issue is much deeper and much more equivocal than that...