Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oversimplifier fakes being a poet, the overcomplicator fakes being a scientist. Perhaps it is unfair to pick on economists rather than anybody else-except that they are, after all, talking about money. And as often as not it turns out to be our money. Here is a master clarifier-by-smokescreen discussing the recruiting possibilities of a volunteer army if wages, military (Wm) are nudged seductively in the direction of wages, civilian (We): "However, when one considers that a military aversion factor must be added to We or subtracted from Wm, assuming average aversion is positive, and that only...
...that no one can climb over it." Though a strong law-and-order man, he vainly fought the Nixon Administration's District of Columbia crime bill with its controversial "no-knock" and preventive-detention provisions. He called it "a garbage pail of some of the most repressive, intolerant, unfair and vindictive legislation that the Senate has ever been presented...
...meaningful blow against construction inflation. "There will be action," he promised. Baseball Fan Nixon added that if Hodgson "struck out, then we'll be up to bat." After the President took his swing last week, A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany condemned the move as "punitive" and "unfair" because it did not restrain the rising price of land or materials, or limit profits. "Disappointing, inadequate and totally ineffective," said William E. Dunn, executive director of the Associated General Contractors of America. "The suspension may have some long-range results, but it will not help to stop the demands for huge...
...apparently modest suspense tale is about quite a different sort of assassination plot. It works as well as it does because the academics he portrays are teasingly out of character in their commitment to violence, yet touched by an anger and frustration now frighteningly familiar. It would be unfair to Hunter and his readers to reveal his sleight-of-hand device. But the result is an intriguing handicapper's book, a second-guessing game of truth and its consequences...
...issue of housing is, of course, not nearly as important as fighting to end Harvard's sexist admissions. (Which itself is not as important as other issues which come to mind.) But meanwhile, it's still unfair to deprive almost half the student population of what has become a major aspect of the undergraduate intellectual experience, for the greater convenience of the rest...