Word: bias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Political magazines have presented this strategy as an insidious plot, a secret infiltration that Americans won't detect until it's too late. The doomsday articles only betray the media's unmistakable bias against the far right. Independent of ideology and policy goals, the grass-roots network is excellent politics...
...standardized test scores the Mecca of objectivity that people like Stonecypher seek. The value of these tests has long been disputed, and studies have suggested that the tests carry a cultural bias and measure not intelligence or aptitude, but very specific knowledge...
...Based on the investigation, a reasonable person could conclude that there is evidence that the chief has some bias against the complainant because she is female, and that that bias has adversely affected her raises," the report says...
...bias suit takes aim at the peak of corporate power...
Despite the new openness in discussing the issue, sexual bias and harassment remain an entrenched fact of life at many U.S. companies. In a recent poll of 439 female executives, the recruiting firm Korn-Ferry found that 60% had been sexually harassed during their careers...