Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reply is his 394-page Um Nichts Als Die Wahrheit (Nothing But the Truth), published last week by Piper Verlag. The book's full documentation of the dispute attempts to prove that Küng is the victim of an unfair inquisition. In a concluding proclamation, Küng states that he accepts the Chalcedon formula but that interpretations of it must follow the view of many modern scholars that Jesus did not proclaim himself as the eternal Son of God, nor did the early Christians. What is more, Küng argues, the ancient dogmas were flawed because...
...terms of a white upper middle class experience, and condemns Third World people for not living such an experience. The admissions office makes it clear that alumni interviews and the alumni are vital parts of the process, yet nothing is being done to change the all-white and unfair character of this and other parts of admissions and recruitment...
...America still has some very fundamental problems to deal with. It seems obvious that the U.S. will have to bite the energy bullet--yet neither extensive conservation plans nor the development of alternative energy sources was legislated. It seems obvious that our current taxation and welfare systems are an unfair and unholy mess. The social security system has been edging toward bankruptcy for years. The federal bureaucracy has grown so huge and decentralized that it acts as both a quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial fourth branch of the government, yet there has been no real reorganization since the New Deal...
...think this is unfair. We are all humans. A woman cannot call another woman sister without calling me brother. Forgive me this sentimentality; I grew up in the '60s. I believe we are all brothers and sisters, and we are all responsible for one another to some degree. The rampant and brutal indifference shown by some women to the plight of miserable or sick men depresses me. (I recall one professional panhandler, a woman, who said: "I'll always give money to another woman. We're in this together. I wouldn't give money to a man if his clothes...
...then there was freshman Tuomo Kerola, who probably got the most important second place of his college career in his 200-yd. breast stroke bout against unfair odds in the Tigers John Christensen and last year's Eastern Seabord champ Chuck Hector...