Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EARLY AS 1959, the Atlantic Refining Company, ARCO's predecessor, signed an antitrust decree following a House investigation. Since then, brushes with the law over allegations of deliberate business practices unfair to consumers and competitors have become part of business as usual for ARCO. Here are recent highlights of the company's record...
WITH THE DEATH of Sherman Holcombe last week, Harvard workers lost an articulate and impassioned advocate of employee rights. Throughout his years as a dining hall worker. Holcombe consistently protested unfair labor practices such as job discrimination, safety conditions, non-posting of job opportunities, and inadequate hiring or promoting of minorities...
...spokesmen, sounding as if they were taken right out of the script for the film The China Syndrome, a thriller that depicts nuclear plant officials as placing greed for profits far above their concern for public safety. But if the movie, starring real-life Antinuclear Activist Jane Fonda, is unfair in its villainous caricature of power-and construction-industry officials, its basic premise will no longer seem so farfetched to those moviegoers until now unattuned to the nation's debate over nuclear power. The premise: that a nuclear power plant is not nearly as accident-proof as its builders proclaim...
Producing opera at the college level takes guts, and it would be patently unfair to expect professional quality singing and playing from a group like Lowell House Opera. What's frustrating about this Fledermaus, though, is that the singing is the strongest part of the show. If the orchestra were better prepared and the director had replaced Strauss's Vienna coherently, Lowell's Fledermaus could please everyone. As it stands, the program lists the show's time-setting as "uncertain"--a word you might better apply to the whole affair...
...would be grossly unfair to insinuate that the divers won the meet, but it would be equally ludicrous to downplay the significance of their contribution. Their points were anticipated and counted upon in pre-meet calculations...