Word: bias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...males and females-a touchy subject for feminists. Trivers says the female is not equipped for the chase and shows no interest in it. And Edward Wilson reminds readers that in the million-year hunter-gatherer period of evolution, men hunted and women stayed home. Adds Wilson: "This strong bias persists in most agricultural societies, and on that ground alone appears to have a genetic origin...
Your vicious anti-Franco bias and rank hatred in your story of Spain's "return to democracy" (whatever that is) are what is expected...
Neither the Army nor the Navy is particularly upset about the B-l's demise, because it eases the budgetary squeeze and opens the prospect of more funds for their own pet weapons systems. But the Air Force seems genuinely devastated. There is, of course, an understandable institutional bias in favor of manned bombers. But beyond that, many Air Force officers argue that the B-52 is simply too old, too prone to metal fatigue, too primitive in its avionics systems and electronic countermeasures to fulfill its assigned role as the third leg of the U.S. strategic triad...
Even discounting the anti-Amin bias of the Kenyan press, Western diplomats in Africa were inclined to believe that there had been an attempt on his life. They also thought it probable that some form of vengeful slaughter was going on inside the country. Under Amin, after all, random killing has become a ghoulish national pastime...
...intend to preserve a discriminatory seniority system." The two dissenting Justices, Thurgood Marshall and William J. Brennan, called the decision "devastating." They said it worked against the spirit of the court's own ruling last year that retroactive seniority must be granted to workers who can prove job bias (TIME, April...