Word: unfairness
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Hilary said she would like to say goodbye. Fifteen minutes later, she emerged sobbing so hard she couldn't breathe. "It's unfair," she said that night for the first time since Sept. 11. "Why did this happen...
...whole time I'm in the industry." It took six months, but in late April, the union consented to changing the agreement?the no-layoff clause was dropped and the acquisition moved forward. Lee Beom Yeon, the union's executive director of policy and planning, calls the new agreement "unfair" but says the union had little choice but to concede. "Right now, the reality is that we have no alternative," he says...
Some students who were turned away criticized the tight security and what the saw as an unfair distribution of tickets...
...governments being urged to use tax incentives and subsidies to woo their consumers off of fossil fuels. Elsewhere, however, it was the EU in the environmentalists' doghouse for nixing any discussion of the $300 billion that rich nations pay their own farmers in subsidies, which the poorer countries deem unfair protectionism that prices their exports out of the market and stymies development. And a number of African leaders bristled at their own failure to stop the Europeans attaching a democracy-and-good-governance clause to calls for greater aid to the developing world...
...Palestinians with that of Native Americans during the settlement of the American West. This points to a key difference: while Americans emphasize the need to stop the suicide bombings, Europeans note that calling for an end to Palestinian violence without mentioning the expansion of Israeli settlements is unfair and counterproductive. Yet America's friends abroad despair of any progress because they see the U.S. as unwilling or unable, for domestic political reasons, to operate in an evenhanded manner on this matter. The issue of Iraq only serves to widen the perception gap. While U.S. officials proceed with plans to displace...