Word: fairest
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...fairest of them all? Knightley's candidate is Kim Philby, the KGB's mole in British intelligence who set up the SIS's anti-Soviet division, coordinated activities with the CIA and so could convey details of the West's counterspy activity to the Kremlin. Philby, exposed by a KGB blunder, was able to escape to Moscow but not before he came within a hair of becoming "C," the chief of the SIS and, according to Knightley, "the most accomplished spy ever...
...Congress enacted; it steadily pushed taxpayers into higher brackets even when their earnings rose less than prices. That fanned public perception that the whole system had gone haywire. In 1972 a poll by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations found that the public rated the federal income tax the fairest of all taxes. By 1980 respondents rated it the least fair. A revolt of sorts started. By Treasury figures, tax evasion more than doubled, from $42.6 billion in 1976 to $90.5 billion...
Moreover, a random lottery would actually be the fairest way to distribute the college's unequal array of accomodations. The current system gives only the illusion of choice. Not only are students still subject to the chances of a random lottery, but they are also often precluded from applying to desirable houses by stereotypes which make choosing a house a statement about one's social, personal, and even sexual preferences...
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Furthermore, the need for expediency in the cases involving seniors should not take precedent over justice for all involved. Harvard should convene the committee when it can produce the fairest decision, not the fastest...