Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sexual orientation never came into play in my work setting, so there would be no reason for any of these things. If you're wondering if I have a bias, I mentored heterosexual men -- I presume they were heterosexual -- to replace me in both of my last positions as chief nurse. So I don't base my decisions on my sexual orientation or on what I believe might be somebody else's. I base them on the work that I do and the work that other people...
...afoul of the First Amendment. But four Justices -- O'Connor, Byron White, John Paul Stevens and Harry Blackmun -- took a different approach, attempting to find a way of accommodating so-called hate-crime laws that are drawn more narrowly. Left in doubt were hundreds of campus speech codes and bias-crime statutes throughout the country aimed at racist and sexist conduct...
Epps' appointment comes after a semester of tensions. In April, the director of the Harvard Foundation, S. Allen Counter, wrote a letter to The Crimson accusing the newspaper of bias in its reporting of minority issues...
...their race. The decision limits peremptory challenges, which have traditionally allowed jurors to be excluded from serving without any explanation. "Be it at the hands of the State or the defense," wrote Justice Harry Blackmun for the majority, "if a court allows jurors to be excluded because of group bias, it is a willing participant in a scheme that could only undermine the very foundation of our system of justice -- our citizens' confidence...
...Cultural bias, religious freedom and the possible health effects of public drumming were all at issue during a City Council hearing on street musicians earlier this week...