Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that The Crimson, like many others, cannot accept the fact that there are many people who study folklore without "practicing" it. Under the weight of this bias, your article degenerated into there sensationalism focusing on the "weird" in order to make your article more "interesting...
...this phenomenon, for surely at one point it was less of a foregone conclusion that a Harvard-Radcliffe graduate would look to the trinity of law, medicine and business for life-long employment. Some argue that we have witnessed the evolution of a so-called "New Class," with a bias towards hyper-professionalism. Or, we could see the shrunken job market as the primary source of this trend toward steady, lucrative employment...
PERSONNEL. The boat people will probably be interviewed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, already burdened with a backlog of 400,000 refugee applications. Immigration officials in Haiti came under fire last August when one of the INS's own internal monitors publicized the ineptitude and anti- asylum bias he observed in Port-au-Prince. He was sacked but later reinstated...
...endured a long struggle in Washington. In 1987, Warren McCleskey, a black factory worker in Atlanta, brought an appeal before the Supreme Court. McCleskey, who had been sentenced to death in the killing of a white police officer in 1978, argued that sentencing patterns in Georgia proved racial bias. The court fractured 5-4 against McCleskey, even though Antonin Scalia conceded, in a note to Thurgood Marshall, that prosecutorial and jury decisions are influenced by "the unconscious operation of irrational sympathies and antipathies, including racial." McCleskey was executed in September...
...apologizing for its short-comings, cites the low pool figures for people of color in the same breath with its concerns regarding lowered standards. But to imply that looking to hire minority faculty automatically risks lowering standards, as this dangerous bipartite excuse does, can only lead to undue bias against all candidates of color, qualifications notwithstanding. In addition, with such a pronounced lack of support for ethnic studies by the relevant departments, excellent minority professors in this field face the double Harvard whammy of being a person of color as well as specializing in a field that is assumed...