Word: unfairness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cream store owner criticized Harvard’s real estate practices for giving the Square newcomer an unfair advantage with discounted rent...
...invited into that location, and it’s very unfair in my opinion to the time and energy we put into the Harvard community,” said Steve Herrell, founder of Herrell’s Ice Cream, which has a store on Dunster Street. “All of the sudden I have a major competitor staring me down the nose.” [SEE CORRECTION...
...would obviously have liked to do better, but I think it’s unfair to chalk up a whole season’s worth of work into one six-minute piece,” Mulcahy said. “There’s a whole lot more that goes into...
When Michael Dukakis ran for President in 1988, crime was perhaps the biggest issue in the campaign. It splintered his coalition, pitting blacks who saw the death penalty as racially unfair against blue-collar whites who demanded a hard line against crime and too often associated that crime with blacks. Today, by contrast, roughly 1% of Americans say crime is their top issue, and no one even knows what Obama's position on the death penalty is. For Obama, that's an enormous boon, and Bill Clinton deserves a lot of the credit. His policies--especially his bold proposal...
...word welfare from America's political lexicon. In the mid-1980s, when pollsters conducted focus groups with Reagan Democrats, they found that when they talked about government help for the needy, voters saw it as welfare: taking money from whites to give to undeserving blacks. That attitude was hugely unfair, but it was a political reality. Clinton changed that when he reformed welfare in 1996. By making it brutally clear that people who didn't work wouldn't get much help from Washington, he made it harder for Republicans to tag Democratic antipoverty programs as handouts to "welfare queens...