Word: bias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...length (45 ft. v. 44 ft.), Sceptre's displacement is 68,000 Ibs. compared to 56,800 for Columbia. While Columbia's bow knifes through waves at the waterline, Sceptre bashes them with her barrel chest. Even British Helmsman Graham Mann guardedly admitted: "If she has a bias, it's toward the heavy side...
...checked both the primary cause of death and other contributory diseases with the physician who signed the death certificate, and (if possible) with the results of post-mortem examinations. Where the Hammond-Horn study had been attacked by the tobacco industry as statistically unsound because of the investigators' bias, the Dorn-VA investigation could not be assailed on the same ground, although even before formal publication it was criticized by industry spokesmen ("It cannot possibly establish the cause or causes of any diseases"). The findings, startlingly similar to those of the American Cancer Society...
...three military members of the junta, led by Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, gave the Reds free rein on the idealistic theory that checking them would be undemocratic. But after Nixon's life was endangered by Red-led mobs, the junta's two civilians, Eugenio Mendoza and Bias Lamberti, resigned in protest over the easy treatment of Communists...
...some $5,500,000. Its contributors include 43 Nobel Prizewinners. Editor-in-Chief Walter Yust and a staff of 150 keep a continuous watch on the timeliness of its 43,512 articles. Editor Yust, onetime Philadelphia literary critic, defends the Britannica against an array of complaints, including pro-British bias (although the encyclopedia has been U.S.-owned for half a century) and Americanization. A more serious objection sometimes heard: that the work is too scholarly for laymen, too elementary for scholars. But despite criticism, the encyclopedia's swarm of salesmen boast, with much justification: "When you buy the Britannica...
This week in Venezuela, in the wake of the Red-led anti-Nixon riots, Communism turned into a full-blown political issue. Reflecting the outrage of the Roman Catholic Church and other conservative factions, the two civilian members of the ruling junta -Industrialist Eugenio Mendoza and Civil Engineer Bias Lamberti -demanded enforcement of Venezuela's anti-Red law to curb the burgeoning Communist Party. The three military members, reflecting the unrealistic tolerance of all major politicians, refused. Mendoza and Lamberti quit, bringing on a tense political crisis...