Word: unjust
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...speaker after speaker addressed the plant-protesting crowd - from African-American activists whose cities are blanketed in pollution to protesters from Appalachia, where coal-mining has stripped the land bare - the message wasn't about polar bears or sea levels but the essential injustice of climate change. Unjust because in the U.S. and around the world it is those least responsible for climate change who will suffer the most from warming, and because it is a form of "generational theft," as one activist put it, with the young standing to inherit a ruined Earth. "My generation has blown it," said...
...strike economy, it's not just the subprime suckers going down. Trouble stretches beyond the province of liar loans, condo-flipping and the collateralized debt obligations that no one fully understands. A hard rain now falls on the just as well as the unjust. Consumers have stopped spending, factories have stopped operating, employers have stopped hiring - and home values continue to fall. For millions of people, the margin between getting by and getting buried is becoming as thin and as bloody as a razor blade...
...freshman point guard, and Berry did everything right except get lucky. Despite the Harvard bench and fans screaming for a foul, the no-call on Berry’s runner with two seconds on the clock essentially sealed the Crimson’s fate.The final miss seemed an unjust ending yet again for Berry, who finished with 14 points. In both of Harvard’s two losses this season, the freshman has had the ball in her hands on the final possession. Neither time did the Crimson get the result it was hoping for, but the decisions indicate...
Finally - and this was the cruelest finding - those who had taken antidepressants also looked older than their twins who hadn't. In other words, if the misery of your divorce doesn't age you, your attempt to treat it with Prozac might. Guyuron and his colleagues believe this unjust fact has something to do with the drooping relaxation of facial muscles that antidepressants can cause...
...nomination of a man who had by far the best chance of enacting a fair and equitable health-care system in the United States, supposed liberals like the New York Times editorial board may have helped condemn our nation to at least another four years under the current unjust regime...