Word: unfairness
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...rags and chunky gold chains to comply with the new "business casual" rule for games and league events. To tackle a perception problem, NBA commissioner David Stern has banned all headgear, shorts, T shirts and necklaces visible outside clothing. "Everybody has their own style," says Iverson. "That's unfair when you take that away." Nevertheless, the league's best representative of hip-hop fashion says he will obey the new rules. Next, Goldman Sachs will be banning pinstripes...
...month later, a panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals voided a similar New York law, although less emphatically. The Second Circuit found no "cognizable" right to die in the Constitution, but ruled the current state of affairs unfair under the Equal Protection clause. If someone on life support can have a doctor kill him or her (by pulling a plug), the court reasoned, why deny the service to a terminally ill patient not attached to a machine? The high court will review the two cases together...
...less than the full 45 days the law allows to mount a defense, Saddam's team will likely move for an immediate dismissal. If that fails, they'll argue for a delay to review the tribunal's file. If that doesn't work, expect them--rightly--to play the "unfair" card...
...workers' market." The new system is designed to let the market set the price of labor. Pay and conditions will be negotiated between workers and their employers; a new Fair Pay Commission will set minimum wages. A lot of cumbersome and outdated administration will be junked, and unfair-dismissal laws will be made more sensible. The economic argument is that reform will reduce the cost of labor and help the nation become more productive. Jobs will be created and incomes will rise as business and the country prosper. Howard's ideological grace note here is about individualism, freedom and choice...
...living wage. People without marketable skills deserve to have decent lifestyles, even if the free market would compensate them at a wage rate that could not support them. Either you believe that the free market always leads to fair wages, or you believe that free-market wages are sometimes unfair. If you agree with the former statement, then you should not claim to support the current wage paid to the janitors. Otherwise, you ought to debate the merits of a specific living wage, not argue against its very existence...