Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spree of special tax cutting for special groups. It voted to boost the capital gains tax exemption from 50% to 60%, to grant deductions for parents with children in private schools and colleges, and to preserve the legendary three-martini lunch. Carter denounced the Senate votes as "inflationary" and "unfair." He threatened to veto the bill unless the House and Senate worked out a compromise that was more to his liking...
...foreign currency that they need to buy the developed countries' goods. Citing a list of new import barriers erected by the U.S., Britain, Canada, France and other manufacturing nations against Third World shoes, textiles, TV sets and other products, McNamara warned that "excessive protectionism is not only unfair. It is self-defeating...
...unfair to some students Harvard turns away from its first-year class each fall, Paul said. "If they (transfer students) couldn't get in the first year, it isn't right for them to get in the back door now," he said...
...that runs the paper--informs the editor that he will do no such thing, for the businesses that are being boycotted have threatened to take their advertising to the competition. Instead of an editorial supporting the boycott, there appears a skillfully crafted "objective" opinion on why the boycott is unfair and reprehensible. This happens far more than people outside the profession would tend to believe...
...unfair to generalize about the smugness of runners. Some of us run not because we think we're special but because we know we aren't. We've tried tennis, handball, softball and racquetball-to the jeers of our peers-and have delightedly discovered you do not have to be specially endowed to run. Do you know how good that makes someone feel who was always in remedial...