Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bell officials protest that price competition is not only unjust, but also a threat to the entire monopoly system that has put telephones in 94% of American homes. Only by charging tieline customers somewhat more than the service actually costs to provide, they contend, can AT&T hold down rates to users of its standard services. Federal regulators, they argue, should not permit its rates to be undercut by MCI, which has no obligation to maintain unprofitable service in rural communities, as Bell does. MCI executives reply simply that prices should reflect the cost of providing service: costly services should...
...loves, confirms his human dignity and his human worth despite the system, whatever system, whatever its representatives, prison guard or minister, which humiliates him, tortures him, strikes him down. It is not in the moment that he is falsely condemned, not in the days and years he serves his unjust term, that the individual forfeits his worth, but in the moment he accepts and justifies his "broken conscience" and forsakes his duty to himself and to his fellow men. The abdication of moral responsibility is the boundary between those still human in mind and heart and those whose greed, whose...
...Diderot sounds unjust, it is not simply because the tone of our culture has swung back to a less civilized amorality in which our pornography is brutish. It is because, when the routine conventions of his work are subtracted, Boucher remains a startling and almost great painter. The sensuousness, the lively plasticity of drawing, the marvelous sensitivity to color and texture, the ironic grasp of elaborate mythologies and allegories still remind us of Talleyrand's wistful epitaph on the ancien régime - that no one who did not live before the Revolution can know the sweetness of life...
...President Nixon reassured my trust and admiration in him through his most recent appearance on television. He reminds me of the little but powerful nation of Israel. His enemies continually try to destroy him through unjust attacks; yet the President finds strength to overcome the odds...
...small showing requires many hours of unpaid work. We are grateful to Mr. Michaud for the enormous energy and effort he extended to arrange Truffaut's presentation of Day for Night. To refuse to reimburse Mr. Michaud for his own expenses and his time seems to us both unjust and cruel...