Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond that, Washington was dismayed at the blatantly unfair rulings made from the chair by this year's Assembly President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria's Foreign Minister. When the Assembly debated the Palestine question, Bouteflika, abandoning the principle that the presiding officer is neutral, obviously favored the Arab in his handling of the time allotted for debate...
...succeeded in this task is not whether a majority can be mobilized behind any single draft resolution, but whether those states whose cooperation is vital to implement a decision will support it in fact. "Each time this Assembly makes a decision which a significant minority of members regard as unfair or one-sided, it further erodes vital support for the U.N. among that minority. But the minority which is so often offended may in fact be a practical majority, in terms of its capacity to support this organization and implement its decisions...
...There was general agreement that the old tables were unfair to parents," John G. Kemeny, president of Dartmouth, said last night. "But many schools felt they just could not afford the new CSS formulas...
...playwright said he'd never heard of Brecht, which surprised me a little even though concentrating on Western art was obviously unfair--few Chinese playwrights are well known in the United States. But none of us had enough background in Chinese art to ask intelligent questions. The dancers said they'd never heard of Nureyev. One actor said he'd read some Shakespeare and found it similar, in some ways, to traditional Chinese drama, but "far removed" from present-day China. One musician said he'd heard some Beethoven but found it "rather far away from our sentiments and needs...
...expresses the themes I think are there." These sequences are visual quotes, and in Wiseman's "reordering and condensing" they are both by intent and of necessity often used out of context. Says Wiseman: "I hope that this is done in a way that is not distorted or unfair to the subjects...