Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police and prosecutors are most likely to come out. Powell, arguing that the public ought to know what goes on in the courts, wanted explicitly to grant reporters a First Amendment "interest" in attending criminal proceedings. But, he added, that interest should be balanced against the risk of unfair publicity. In this case, said Powell, Judge DePasquale had struck the right balance by excluding the public...
Backstage the Europeans were pressing for a pledge that all the industrial countries freeze oil imports through 1985 at last year's level. Unfair, protested Carter's aides. By drawing on increasing output from North Sea wells (expected to nearly double from last year to 1985), the Europeans could freeze imports from outside the Community and still burn more petroleum than ever. In the U.S., where domestic oil output has been declining (down about 700,000 bbl. a day since 1972), a freeze on imports would cause more hardship. Japan, which is totally dependent on imported oil, took the same...
...price. To that figure the refiner is allowed to add a margin varying in size to cover processing costs and profit. Until this year, the price of a refiner's product was based on how large a percentage of a barrel of crude it represented. That was considered unfair in the case of gasoline, which costs more to produce than most other oil products. So the refiner was allowed to increase his margin on gasoline by an average...
...spot shortages could be eased, and the five-month-average base was introduced in an effort to deal with seasonal population shifts-but the problems have not been solved. Criticisms are now mounting; last week the state of Maryland filed a lawsuit against DOE, challenging the allocation system as unfair. Says Economist Walter Heller: "I've heard it said that if God wanted us to have gasoline, he would never have created the Department of Energy...
...easy-to-install cartridge. Other camera makers were riled because they were caught by surprise and lost sales during the time it took to develop models that could use that cartridge. Berkey argued that Kodak had exploited its dominance in film manufacturing to give its Instamatic an unfair advantage over competitors and that it should have told its competitors in advance about the 110 system...