Word: unfairness
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...Labour, Byers told the British broadsheet the Sunday Telegraph, is that when Blair leaves office, as he has promised to do before the next election, "voters will feel that the pragmatic and modernizing approach of New Labour has gone with him." Byers also argued that the tax is unfair because the very wealthy tend to get advice on how to avoid paying it, but "this is not an option if your only asset of any real worth is the family home." Brown supporters quickly counterattacked, pointing out that inheritance tax brings in about $6 billion in revenue annually and depicting...
...childhood, years of hoofing in Broadway chorus lines, the inevitable drug-fueled crash and rousing comeback - only most of it isn't true. His voice cracks at the big note in his opening number; his brother from Canada pops up in the balcony to complain that Marty is being unfair to the family; and he confesses that, when it comes to his daunting Broadway challenge, he goes by Mandy Patinkin's advice: "Always leave the audience wanting less...
...Rubbish. That characterization is untrue - and unfair...
...horror of Charles' leg did seem most unfair of all. Most of us think of fairness as a kind of symmetry; equal treatment on both sides of the line. But is there really any symmetry between my world and his? Would one of my surgical tools, or a shackle from my sailboat be for Charles what that the Leatherman is for me? Would he value a souvenir from my life...
...unfair, but this is the reality New Orleans leaders should be talking about. In a TIME poll of 1,000 Americans taken this month, 56% said they did not think all of New Orleans should be rebuilt if it might flood again. But in New Orleans, a city cut through with racial distrust and anger over the Corps' faulty levees, the same conversation is laced with suspicion. There is enough high ground in New Orleans for the city to relocate the entire pre-Katrina population more safely. The mostly African-American Lower Ninth Ward could still exist; it would just...