Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubts about Seaborg's nomination to the attention of the full membership, Greenberg ordered up an account of the backstage maneuvering. Chemist Philip Abelson, Science's editor and Seaborg's contemporary at the University of California, refused to print it; he said that it would be unfair to raise questions about Seaborg's candidacy just before the voting. Infuriated, Greenberg quit...
Agnew replied that by his reckoning, 80% of the media "are after me and the Republican Party." He was prepared with a sheaf of press clippings illustrating what he clearly thought was unfair and vituperative comment about him by the press. Many articles contained partisan statements made by Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien and other top Democrats, which Agnew argued had been accepted as fact by the papers that printed them. He was especially incensed by a front-page story in the previous day's New York Times reporting that a majority of Governors at Sun Valley...
...stratum of society that they epitomized. Father, an expansive but hopelessly improvident clerk, was to balloon into fiction as Mr. Micawber. Mother, with her snobbish faith in "connections" (one of whom was the manager of the blacking factory), would become not only Mrs. Micawber but later Mrs. Nickleby. "Peculiarly unfair" treatment for mother, Wilson concludes, but there was a special reason for that...
...unfair and unethical to use the people of the model neighborhood as pawns in the clash of ideologies, but that is what is being done...
...level, delaying the roll-back provision. When he finally announced that roll-back would go into effect on December 1 he confused everyone by issuing 158 temporary adjustments of rents to the current level on the basis of hardship to certain landlords in the city. Landlords said it was unfair for some to get adjustments and others not, tenants and members of the City Council pointed out that there were supposed to be no adjustments without hearings. Two weeks ago the rent control administration agreed to end temporary adjustments and call a public hearing on the question of an across...