Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual return on its investment, v. the 9% to 10% that the company could earn financing a purely commercial housing venture. Plumley, who last month announced his retirement at age 69, is even more annoyed by "the cost of exposing yourself to criticism that you know is unjust." He adds: "I believe there were other companies in this community who would have been interested in helping, just as we did. I doubt that they would be interested...
...such topics as economics and ecology, and was sent to the Pope without public release. It protested "injustices deprived of a voice," but stopped short of citing specific situations such as those in Brazil and South Africa. On the population problem, the statement suggested that abortion and the "unjust imposition" of contraception could be equated with war as violations of "the right to life...
Realignment of world trade and currencies is undoubtedly overdue, and America will find that just changes in this area will be accepted by the major trading nations. But it is to be hoped that America does not press for too hasty or even unjust changes in world trade...
...comparatively enlightened California penal system. The theory was that convicts, instead of suffering through fixed terms, might be released whenever prison authorities thought they were rehabilitated. Unfortunately reform has proved to be a regression in many cases; indeterminate sentencing has given California prison authorities an extraordinary and often unjust discretionary power over their convict charges. Repeatedly, for the next eleven years, Jackson appeared before California parole authorities, and each time he was returned to his cell. There was an aspect of Jean Valjean in the procedure...
...reformatory subjects were operating primarily at Stages 1 and 2 when the experiment began. Although most of them are now moving into Stage 4, their problems are far from over. As Kohlberg himself acknowledges, moral judgment does not ensure moral behavior; it is hard to act justly in an unjust world, especially for those too weak to resist temptation. Prison rules are often unfair, and prison staffers are not necessarily much more moral than inmates. Outside, released prisoners may find a society that may not help reinforce their new-found morality; although U.S. democracy is founded on Stage 5 thinking...