Word: unfairness
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...jumpstart the economy, why don’t producers stick out their necks and reduce prices a little more to entice spending? Insisting consumers dig deeper into their savings is not exactly fair—not at a time of rising unemployment and uncertain futures. Not only is it unfair, it’s also just plain unlikely. According to a highly unscientific CNN “Quickvote,” only 17 percent of consumers plan to spend more than they did last year, while 41 percent plan to spend less...
...unfair to single her out when Spacek and Wilkinson so gracefully manage most of the movie's heaviest lifting. But they have always been predictably expert actors. Tomei's career path is radically different. She came out of nowhere to win the supporting-actress Oscar, over more prestigious competitors, for her hilarious work in 1992's My Cousin Vinny. Then, and just as suddenly, she swooned into off-Broadway plays and smallish roles in obscure films, where she also gained a reputation as "difficult." Now she's back, and damned if people aren't talking Oscar nomination again...
...Saudi officials say that it is unfair to blame the country for fomenting terror simply because some of the hijackers were born and raised in the Kingdom. There is some truth in that. Saudi intelligence officials tell TIME that no more than 50 Saudis are thought to be allied with bin Laden in Afghanistan and that his al-Qaeda network in the Kingdom is very small...
...chief executive Frank Argenbright Jr. and said it was raising the hourly wages of its screeners. Company president Bill Barbour did not return TIME's phone calls for comment. Kenneth Quinn, a lawyer hired by a consortium of private security agencies, says much of Argenbright's negative publicity is unfair. "There's a spotlight now on incidents that would otherwise garner very little attention," says Quinn...
...very easy. It’s unfair to say that Hitchens is a total mercenary, or that he doesn’t live at least some of his principles—he takes care to remind you of all of his sundry sojourns alongside this political radical or championing that unpopular cause—but he undeniably benefits from the very best of the system he so deplores...