Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Wednesday's vote apparently halted District 65's effort for at least a year, the union has until Thursday to contest the results on the ground of unfair labor practices...
...stepped in himself. His lieutenants converted the faltering centrist alliance into a coalition composed of Social Democrats, Christian Democrats, liberals and a number of former Franco officials. Although he promised to resign if the U.C.D. lost, the Premier was sensitive to opposition clamor about the unfair advantage his office might give him. Thus he made only one campaign appearance. But he managed, nonetheless, to get across the message that he would bring change without risk and without trauma...
Establishing settlers in the so-called liberated Israel is not only unfair but also inhumane because it will take away the last hope of the Palestinians for a homeland. Perhaps now the American people will begin to realize that the money and arms our Government gives to Israel go to a country that is unconcerned about the rights of others...
...last week it brought an unusual judgment. An arbitration panel of the New York Stock Exchange ordered Paine, Webber to pay Bateman Eichler almost $1.1 million in damages. In addition, the arbitrators assessed damages totaling $45,000 against three of the former Bateman employees for conspiring to engage in unfair competition. The damages were less than the $2.5 million that Bateman had asked in a California court suit filed on the Monday that the Fresno employees switched allegiance (the court tossed the case to the Big Board), but the penalty is still the heaviest ever imposed by the exchange against...
Politics has become Wald's consuming interest, and while it has not reduced his effectiveness as a teacher, he says the ensuing commitments and pressures have "disrupted the continuity" of his life, making it more difficult to conduct research. It would be unfair to fault Wald for ignoring research in favor of politics, however, because as Mendelsohn notes, most biologists tend to produce their major work early in their career. Following Wald's perception of a scientist's role, his activism is not a substitute for research but its logical extension...