Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudenstine said that there will be no bias towards internal candidates when choosing the next dean...
...religious bias that has brought administrators at Boston University to expel it from campus, those at MIT to suspend its activities, and numerous other Boston schools to prohibit it from acting on campus. Administrators, including Epps, are wary of the BCC's use of deception, harassment, and mind control techniques to coerce vulnerable students...
Travelers can also go online to get the latest flights and fares from computerized sources like American Airlines' SABRE system. But this again raises the specter of possible bias. The U.S. Transportation Department launched a probe of SABRE and other airline-owned systems last fall after asta and several airlines complained that SABRE favored American's flights. In 1984 the Civil Aeronautics Board ordered major carriers to display flight information in an impartial manner...
...independent ombudsman for the American buying public, CR has always attracted some ire and resentment-and not only from manufacturers. In 1939 a House committee branded Consumers Union subversive, thanks to the magazine's perceived antibusiness bias. Though such witch-hunting may seem laughable now, executives at CR and Consumers Union are not smiling at what some detractors and publishing analysts are saying about the magazine today: 1) its methods of testing and evaluating products are sometimes flawed and less objective than they appear; 2) the magazine has evolved from a neutral reporter into an advocate of politically correct...
...translations, passion triumphs over literalness and the result is that Pinsky--the author of several poetry collections--reveals his true identity in his work: He is more a poet than a translator. The fruit of Pinsky's labor, a vivid and passionate Inferno, is the benefactor of this bias...