Word: unjust
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Students and professors who attended a teach-in last night vowed to raise awareness of what many of them called the American government's unjust treatment of Taiwanese-American Wen Ho Lee, who is accused of violating national security regulations...
...lawsuit only targets partners' health benefits, meaning that even if the suit is successful domestic partners will still retain some of their rights under the ordinance. Regardless, the loss of heath insurance benefits to so many people for such a fundamentally unjust reason would be a tragedy. If Massachusetts will not allow same-sex marriage, it at least ought to grant domestic partners fair and equal benefits...
...have three thousand six hundred seconds dissipate into thin air--well, things start to get a little suspicious. As we went to change our clocks this past weekend, it became necessary to ask ourselves the tough questions: Is it not unjust to deny precious seconds to a student demographic whose schedule-juggling is already a feat of Herculean proportions? Why does no one think to factor in the additional ten minutes that we lose in our attempts to readjust our watches? Why does it always seem to fall right after spring break, when we need that extra hour of detox...
...Rawlsian plan. So named by my suitemate who transferred from the Quad and feels that no one, under the "veil of ignorance," would choose to live there. Random or not, he argues, the system is at base unjust if it makes some people live unfairly disadvantaged for three years...
...children through a raft of recently legislated tax breaks, like $500-a-child credits. And, yes, companies that provide an array of family-friendly benefits (from child-care reimbursement to company scholarships) aimed solely at employees with children should revise their offerings to include all workers. It is similarly unjust to provide opportunities for leaves of absence, flextime and telecommuting exclusively on the basis of parental status and on the assumption that the concerns of parents are inherently more deserving than those of the childless. And most intelligent readers will share her revulsion at the knee-jerk family-fawning rhetoric...