Word: biased
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Center began a special program of publication. Its myriad volumes and journals have complete documentation and absolutely no bias. The publications speak scientifically and sanely, thus incurring the wrath both of the old temperance people, who prefer the fanatical scream, and of the alcohol distributors, for whom even a whisper is too loud...
...fiscal 1954, the Federal Government will probably let some $39 billion worth of contracts to private companies. If the GCC succeeds in getting the nondiscrimination clause enforced in any substantial percentage of these contracts, it will be the greatest single blow ever struck against race bias in U.S. business...
...make much of the anti-McCarthy attitude in [England] . . . You should realize that your spineless State Department, by destroying books which have not the faintest Communist bias, out of fear of a demagogic Senator, makes people here wonder what is happening in your country. We would never allow any person in public life here to create such an atmosphere...
...strength lies in his limitations. Raised on a Norman farm, he has never quite got over the awe and delight with which the country boy sees the big city for the first time, although Paris is now home to him. Léger's bias for machine-tooled design does not come from study, experiment or theory; it was set during the only period in his adult life when he did no painting, while he was a stretcher-bearer in an engineer corps during World War I. "There," he recalls, "in the midst of machines, I felt my taste...
Oatis justifiably has been the special hero of the press. But this bias has been extended even to the news columns of papers with large circulations and enviable reputations for accuracy. Though the Czech law is an abridgement of freedom of the press, each newspaper has the right to say so only in its editorial columns. For it is also an abridgement of the standards of the press to twist a valid case under a given law into an injustice. The newspapers can protest the Czech law but they have an obligation to the people that these protests be labelled...