Word: bias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine, is not just another political reporter. In a journalistic specialty known for apple polishing, he has made his way by following the old maxim that the best way for a reporter to look upon a politician is, as a misanthropic editor once said, "down." "I do have a bias in writing about politicians," Reeves admits. "I don't feel any great obligation to recount their many and varied personal and professional virtues. That is what they, or the taxpayers, are paying for in the salaries and fees of press secretaries, media advisers and advertising agencies." He picked...
Members of the society agreed that the extent of the bias varied from department to department, but the Economics department was by far the worst offender. "The department doesn't have a single monetarist professor, and its uses Samuelson, a blatantly Keynesian text, in its introductory course," Timothy M. Cranston '77, the society's vice president, said yesterday...
Twenty conservative students have banded together in opposition to Harvard's "overwhelming liberal bias" and formed the George Washington Society, Kenneth G. Brownell '76, the organization's president, said yesterday...
Cranston also said Harvard's liberal bias can be partly attributed to the vast amount of funding it receives from the "predominantly liberal" federal government...
...prospects for the lessening of discrimination are brightening. A federal law banning sex bias in the granting of credit goes into effect next week, and last week the Federal Reserve Board published rules for enforcing it that are tougher than many creditors would have liked. Also last week a movement by women to organize their own banks and credit unions gained momentum when the long-delayed First Women's Bank opened in New York...