Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also recently, she withstood a challenge when Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard Francis Law '53 wrote a private letter to Governor A. Paul Cellucci, expressing his concerns that she might have an anti-Catholic bias. Law was concerned because during her time as Harvard's General Counsel, Marshall reprimanded a Catholic professor at the law school for expressing anti-abortion views on Harvard letterhead...
When the cardinal's letter to Cellucci was leaked, Marshall reacted to the matter with typical spirit, class and tact. Rather than calling a press conference to respond to the matter, she simply called the cardinal and assured him that she had no anti-Catholic bias--and he took her at her word...
After months of fussing and fretting that the Fed would raise interest rates, the markets finally let their guard down ? and got a nasty shock. No, Alan Greenspan didn?t hike 'em a third straight time. But he let everybody know he?s watching, moving the Fed?s bias toward tightening and sending a recently resurgent Dow into an instant 100-point mini-tailspin (thus smothering an earlier rally and ending the day even). "It?s a clear signal that the bank is concerned that the economy isn?t slowing down fast enough," says TIME senior economics correspondent Bernard Baumohl...
...Alan?s cautiousness set us up for another black autumn? Baumohl doubts it. "The markets had factored in a no-hike with a neutral bias, so this was a sell-off on the surprise," he says. "But when they realize that no hike is still no hike, they?ll get over it." They?ll have time ? Baumohl expects the Fed to stand pat on the bias all the way until spring, thus making sure there?s plenty of money lying around in the credit markets for any Y2K foofaraw. Of course, unjustified fretting is always a possibility...
Wirzbicki acknowledges that conservatives are underrepresented in the Faculty and tacitly admits that they're usually maligned by the campus press. It might be expected that a group burdened by such bias would fight for redress and vie for special privilege. Some people do expect that, and they perceive a grab for personal accommodation when conservatives poke fun at the institution of victimhood or satirize Harvard's inequitable (on the low side) distribution of minority privilege to the conservative minority here...