Word: unfairness
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Banks and other financial-service firms complain that credit unions hold an unfair edge. "We welcome competition, but we can't compete with the bigger credit unions that don't pay taxes," says Harley Bergmeyer, 61, chairman of Saline State Bank in Wilber, Neb., a rural institution with $81 million in assets. Banks have periodically filed lawsuits to prevent credit unions from expanding, to little avail, and have tried to stymie the loosening of federal restrictions on membership rules (also with scant success...
Plenty of things about Harvard are unfair. Some students are admitted for reasons other than their talents; some have better first-year roommates and advisers than others; some, taking the same course are assigned teaching fellows that are far worse than others...
...suppose for a second that the data from the surveys is, in fact, valid. Is it not, then, quite unfair to the poor, beleaguered residents of Kirkland, Lowell and Eliot Houses that they do not get to spend some of their time in the hallowed halls of Currier, Pforzheimer and Cabot which produce such satisfaction...
While drugs may damage the health of the players that take them, they are even more pernicious for the game as a whole. Among players, performance enhancing drug-use creates a divide between drug-takers and drug-abstainers. Those who strengthen themselves with drugs gain an unfair advantage. Aside from this clear violation of sporting ethics, drugs have led to a game more focused on brute force rather than teamwork or even individual finesse. Instead of a well-rounded game with defense, strategy and teamwork, over-powered homeruns now all-too-often clinch the victory...
...think that scene is stereotypical, then you are very stupid, very corrupted," Adoor says to Nair. "That is very unfair!" Adoor vibrates with indignity. Nair, unruffled, makes a few attempts at qualification, but the director is unsoothed. Finally, Nair gets a chance to make a point, arguing that Adoor's audience, steeped in mainstream movies even if he is not, would not differentiate between his artistically windblown grass and any other. "The audience can't go back to 1941," he argues...