Word: bias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultural bias appeared in subtle ways throughout the news columns of magazines and dailies. Islam and its prescriptions proved most difficult for editors to swallow. Particularly during the fall, press reports in this country regularly juxtaposed the image of a progressive, modernizing Shah with intransigent religious fanatics whose opposition to the Shah was based on medieval social concepts. The Islamic religion is so clearly alien as to arouse the fear of press writer and reader alike. References to the veils worn by women and Ayetollah Khomeini's orthodox beliefs reinforce this vision of difference, and hence, subtly, inferiority. Newsweek...
...rejecting substantive reform, the Faculty Council has chosen to preserve the CRR's essentially rigged bias. The committee, descendant of those established in the wake of the 1969 riots that were explicitly designed to control student dissent, retains procedures that stack the deck against any defendant...
...effects of this information bias are serious. After discussing the issue of South Africa for two months, my predecessor on the ACSR was not aware that there is massive starvation among South African blacks. Some current committee members are unaware of the key role Bantustans play in the apartheid system. Some altered perceptions of the problem are bound to influence decisions...
...lower federal courts ruled that the program, aimed at landing more blacks in higher paying jobs, was illegal because it fostered racial bias against Weber...
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court announced yesterday it will decide whether employees with no proven history of racial bias illegally discriminate against whites when giving preference to minority workers...