Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, Kravitz's team found a pair of large serotonin-containing cells, which, when stimulated, bias the system towards either stimulation or inhibition of the muscles involved in the postures...
...more bluntly, "Prosecutors frequently pay no attention to the families of black homicide victims. They don't even stay in touch with them." Later this year Congress will consider a measure that aims to enable defendants to quash death-penalty sentences if they can provide evidence demonstrating a racial bias in sentencing patterns...
...menace is known, has been denounced in the media recently as the new McCarthyism, the new fundamentalism, even the new totalitarianism -- take your choice. According to its critics, who include a flock of tenured conservative scholars, multiculturalism aims to toss out what it sees as the Eurocentric bias in education and replace Plato with Ntozake Shange and traditional math with the Yoruba number system. And that's just the beginning. The Jacobins of the multiculturalist movement, who are described derisively as P.C., or politically correct, are said to have launched a campus reign of terror against those who slip...
...combative political agenda or outlandish views of the nation's culture and values. At Duke University in North Carolina, an English-department course uses plays and films to pursue the theme that organized crime "is a metaphor for American business as usual." Another Duke offering condemns a heterosexual bias in traditional Western literature; its professor has written about such topics as "Jane Austen and the masturbating girl...
...last week's decision, however, Justice Blackmun found the discriminatory nature of the policy to be a more palpable danger. "The bias in Johnson Controls' policy is obvious," he wrote. "Fertile men, but not fertile women, are given a choice as to whether they wish to risk their reproductive health for a particular job." Blackmun was supported by Justices Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O'Connor, John Paul Stevens and David Souter, who as the newest member of the court was weighing in with his first significant vote on a women's rights issue...