Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Microsoft tried to force the Harvard professor to leave the position, alleging that he is a "partisan of Netscape" with "clear bias" against Microsoft...
Microsoft is still pushing for the removal of Lawrence Lessig after the court-appointed fact-finder in the government's antitrust battle said he would not disqualify himself in the face of emails from Lessig that Microsoft says prove he has shown "extreme bias" against the company. Microsoft first filed for Lessig's dismissal on Dec. 23, alleging its concern "that Professor Lessig may have already formed views about Microsoft and the issues in this case." Justice scoffed, saying Monday that the allegations were "unfounded and overblown." Yesterday, Microsoft released copies of Lessig's E-mail in which he complains...
...with numerous vivid scenes, including a Congressman jumping up and down screaming and an attack by cigar-puffing capitalists at a lunch, which Slate magazine showed in an Internet minute did not happen. And what was Senator Robert Torricelli thinking when he recalled with great emotion the anti-Italian bias he felt when he watched the Kefauver organized-crime hearings on a flickering TV screen? He was an infant at the time...
...hours of his recent town meeting in Akron, Ohio, the President searched and scratched, picked and poked to bring repressed truth and bias and hurt to the surface. Such was his attempt to start a "national conversation on race." It managed to go nowhere...
...were against it as either insensitive to the plight of workers or simply taken in by "catchy phrases" about student choice. While the amount of editorial space used to advocate the same position on the same issue is the prerogative of The Crimson staff, I became disturbed when the bias seemed to spill over into the actual coverage of the debate, a phenomenon that culminated in the naively uncritical interview of the former grape worker who was chosen by the United Farm Workers (UFW) to be questioned, and whose answers were given through a UFW "interpreter", who happened...