Word: unfairnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...photo caption "Philadelphia police in action" [Aug. 27] is misleading and unfair. Philadelphia-area readers may know that a police officer was shot dead only moments before; those in Des Moines or Seattle will think, "So that's the Philadelphia police...
...hard to put a time clock in the head of a professor and see when he was thinking about which federally-funded project he may be working on," he adds. Scott says the HEW assessment of the University's record-keeping for wages "seems a little unfair. I would not object as much if they told us to change it in the future," Scott insists, "but they're talking about a system used from July 1974 until 1977. Now is a wonderful time to tell us that they don't like it." Scott notes that not all professors and researchers...
Journalistic previewing constantly diminishes an event, boring the reader before it happens, making an election either an unsurprising confirmation of what was foretold or else an exercise in judging whether a candidate has done as well "as expected." This can be unfair, as it was to Senator Edmund Muskie in New Hampshire in 1972. Long before the primaries, a Boston Globe poll prematurely "gave" Muskie 65% of the vote; on election day, though Muskie beat George McGovern, 46% to 37%, the press proclaimed McGovern the real winner...
LESTER THUROW, 41. A liberal who remains a moderate Keynesian, Thurow favors tax reductions to fight economic slump. To combat inflation, he opposes inducing a recession or putting on wage and price controls, both of which he considers unfair. Instead, Thurow, who is an M.I.T. professor, advocates removing Government price props, such as subsidies and tariffs...
...strict about parole violations. In this case, the teenager, convicted of robbery, has failed to report to his probation officer for a month. White revokes his probation and sentences him to jail for one to 23 months. Both mother and son burst into tears. "Judge, that's unfair, a child like him," cries the mother. The judge shuffles papers as the young man is led off, and the crying subsides. Then he calls the next case...