Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commander, who has a spectrum of choices running from friendly counseling through informal warning, fines, reprimands, demotions and courts-martial. This sustains authority and flexibility but invites caprice and prejudice. Air Force defenders point out that the branch's statistics on adultery courts-martial betray little sexual bias, reflecting almost exactly the male-to-female ratio of the force. But observers contend that women, once investigated, draw harsher noncriminal penalties. According to one seasoned pilot (in a custom dubbed by others "different spanks for different ranks"), the "higher the person who commits the offense, the less happens to him." Critics...
...ever present slipdress is still among us. Only this year it's short and asymmetrical: one-sleeved is good; bias cut is even better. "All ages with good legs will wear miniskirts," says Bloomingdale's fashion guru Kal Ruttenstein. And Nicole Fischelis, fashion director for Saks Fifth Avenue, says the softer, swishier look is best topped with a tailored jacket, to break up the fluidity of the silhouette. Designers like Jill Stuart prefer a sweater. "A jacket is too hard for this collection," Stuart says. And while the dresses are soft, they're not always simple. A Chinese influence runs...
...statistic does not necessarily indicate a bias in admissions, Lewis says. Being raised by well-educated parents definitely aids in a child's academic career...
There is an inarguable disparity between percentages of male and female senior faculty at this University. The staff sees this disparity and assumes that it is the product of some institutional bias that leads to the chronic mistreatment of women under the tenuring process. The staff presents no evidence that such obstacles actually still exist...
...most often applied. Because the OCR has never actually enforced Title IX by denying federal funds to noncomplying schools, wronged parties have had to resort to legal challenges. In recent years such high-profile schools as Colgate, Auburn, Texas and Colorado State have had to deal with sports-bias lawsuits...