Word: fair
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Despite isolated reports of missing ballots and other irregularities, United Nations observers described the elections as fair. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, one of the monitors, called the voting "remarkably peaceful" and hailed the military for its uncharacteristically supportive role. Early results projected Aristide winning with 70% of the votes; the second-place finisher, former World Bank official Marc Bazin, received only...
...Pineapple One year after his capture was hailed as a major victory in the drug war, Manuel Noriega sat in a Miami jail while his lawyers haggled with the government over the size of their legal fees and the issue of whether the former Panamanian dictator can get a fair trial...
...Fair in Love and Show Biz Andrew Lloyd Webber brought Aspects of Love to Broadway in more ways than one. Critics found the hit musical's score overwrought and the plot unlikely. In real life, the composer highlighted one of love's least admirable aspects when he announced a separation from wife Sarah Brightman and helpfully included the name of his mistress in the press release...
More difficult than the task of physically rebuilding Kuwait are the problems of equity that will arise when Kuwaitis return. "For example," wonders Khalifa, "what is fair compensation for loss? Assume that one person's house was worth $1 million before it was destroyed by the Iraqis and that another's was worth $100,000. Does the government assist both to the same degree in dollar amount or in percentage or what? What's fair? What will wash...
...masks a far more vital point. Even if the U.S. by New Year's Eve collects every last cent pledged by allies, that amount is grossly insufficient, particularly from two such economic powerhouses as Germany and Japan. Moreover, few allies have pledged any money beyond Jan. 1 (to be fair, most have not yet been asked). So U.S. officials will soon have to rerun the September begging trip that was dubbed Operation Tin Cup. But Bonn is complaining about the high costs of German unification, and the Japanese Finance Ministry is grumbling about the nation's heavy debt...