Word: unjustness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mississippi, attorney general Mike Moore and attorney Scruggs are leading the charge with a legal theory, never before deployed in anti-tobacco suits, called "unjust enrichment." Rather than suing on behalf of specific sick individuals, a strategy that has yet to succeed, the states are claiming they are tobacco's hit-and-run victims, stuck paying out billions of taxpayer dollars each year to treat the array of health problems wrought by smoking. In other words, says one frustrated tobacco-industry lawyer, "the states are taking the position that they don't have to prove anything except the company sold...
...musical does succeed--by the end of the play, the audience fully understands this black hole of apartheid. We are shown countless examples of the dilemmas imposed by unjust laws. And it is evident that the actors deeply empathize with their characters; who could not help but be impassioned by the roles of a misguided and angry black youth, a fervent, humane lawyer or a sadistic foul-mouthed...
...said the planned system of limited Palestinian self-rule is unjust because after years of Palestinian and international calls for Israel to with draw from the West Bank the current agreement contains "no rights for the Palestinians and no withdrawal...
...memorial to alumni who died during the Civil War. But there is no clear precedent for such a memorial and it would cheapen the sacrifice made by Harvard's Union war dead to lump them together with those who lacked the courage to stand against the unjust and immoral regime in place in the Confederate South. There are probably a number of Harvard alumni who died doing the Devil's work, but there is no high-powered task force set-up to commemorate them. Singling out Confederate soldiers for such treatment, then, makes no sense...
...Hispanic family automatically receives financial aid from Harvard University once he or she is admitted. The sons and daughters of a poor white family or an Asian American family do not automatically receive financial aid. What is true at Harvard is also true at other colleges. That is unjust...