Word: bias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relations with the press have done little to soften his austere image. Indeed, he and his staff have shown little more than an icy tolerance for either the traveling press contingent or native journalists. During an airborne press conference, the Vice President accused the American press of a Communist bias. As a result, foreign press coverage has frequently been less than flattering. The Kuwait Times, in an editorial titled "An Odd Experience with American Courtesy," complained that Agnew was making only a "palace visit," and that "to the masses, and ironically enough, for the local pressmen too, the visit might...
...Corporate Planner John W. Heil-shorn "had a very real feeling when I walked in that I was guilty before I took the witness stand." Heilshorn found that the interviewers generally assumed that his institution is "a big, fat New York bank hoarding capital" and held "a clear bias toward centralized Government control" of private business. Says Wriston: "Most of the Nader team saw the experience as an adversary proceeding. Whatever you told them, they acted like you were trying to mislead." The investigators turned down an offer from the bank for each of its division heads to give...
Thus the audience is being deprived of half of his potential wit because of political bias and expediency...
...possibly avoid doing so. The approach rouses strong reactions in the academic community. Says Stanford's Amsterdam: "As long as there is a court at the top that is protective enough of constitutional rights, the lower courts will strike a balance against the overwhelming conservative bias of legislators, cops and prosecutors. Take away the liberal threat at the top and the entire system goes rotten...
...public housing units in predominantly white areas, and 41 welfare families claimed that this violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. A federal district court agreed. But Justice Hugo Black, writing for the Supreme Court majority, held that "referendums demonstrate devotion to democracy, not to bias, discrimination or prejudice." The California law, he added, does not rest on "distinctions based on race...