Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Somali hatred for the Ethiopians could hardly be more intense. Husein Liban, a Jijiga elder, recalls how the Somali nomads once killed an Ethiopian policeman who tried to collect a tax that they regarded as unfair. In revenge, he recalls, they "took 35 of our people and shot them. They would cut the breasts of our women to prevent them from suckling our young. When the fighting increased, the Ethiopians took 150 of our people as hostages. They shot them all, including my brother Odowa." Liban proudly claims to have been a guerrilla for 31 of his 71 years. "There...
...example, the Japanese steelmakers contend that they are not dumping, just producing steel more efficiently. American mill executives swear that cannot be true. Says Speer: "No foreign producers, including those in Japan, can manufacture steel, ship it to this country and undersell our domestic product without engaging in unfair trade practices...
...vigorous opposition of some liberals, has proposed to Carter that people selling assets held for ten years or more be taxed only on the amount of the profit that exceeds the rise in the consumer price index occurring between purchase and sale. Investors have long argued that it is unfair to tax them on long-term capital gains made illusory by inflation: if, for example, an asset held for ten years is sold at a dollar profit of 50%, but prices have risen 50% in that time, the seller has only held even in purchasing power...
...many Americans, affirmative action for the sake of equality seems a threat to the very concept of equality. If two people are equally qualified and one is favored over the other because of race or gender, is that not undemocratic and unfair? Says Martin S. Goldman, New England education director of the B'nai B'rith: "The evil is discrimination. One does not end discrimination by discriminating...
...court ruled that the U.C. Davis special admissions program, because it is effectively closed to white applicants, excludes whites from competition for 16 of the 100 places in a given class, violating the 14th amendment to the Constitution. Any admissions procedure using race as a factor is "arbitrary and unfair," the court reasoned...