Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With serious questions of racial and class bias already swirling around capital punishment, there are concerns that a decision upholding Payne's death sentence will produce further inequities. Hypothetically, the grieving family of a murdered bank president would be persuasive witnesses for the death penalty, while no one would speak for a slain prostitute. Diann Rust-Tierney of the A.C.L.U. is worried that the Supreme Court will "sanction different punishment based on the worth of the victim and aggravate an already pronounced discrimination in the way that the death penalty is applied...
...harder for dance credit. According to Loeb, the response they received from the administration was "we don't do anything at Harvard unless we can do it better than anybody else." Harvard did not feel then it had the resources necessary to establish a strong dance department, and this bias has persisted to the present...
...sound bite. Or, in the outmoded argot of print, a quote. Under the conventions of American journalism, his insight was worthless to him until he could get someone else to utter it, thus conferring on his nugget some spurious authority and relieving himself of any taint of opinion or bias. I could just as easily quote him to the same purpose. Someday I will...
Although a handful of black soldiers have been awarded the Medal of Honor since 1863, questions about possible bias have been raised in Congress. Last week President Bush named Corporal Stowers as the first black soldier to receive the Medal of Honor for service in World War I or II. The medal is the nation's highest award for valor. "He fought not for glory," said Bush as he presented the award to Stowers' sisters, "but for a cause larger than himself -- the cause of liberty...
...detectives contacted me, posing as a friend and a relative of a so-called cult victim, to elicit negative statements from me about Scientology. Some of my conversations with them were taped, transcribed and presented by the church in affidavits to TIME's lawyers as "proof" of my bias against Scientology...