Word: biased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...danger is not that too many poor people will join the army, but that anyone -- rich or poor -- will be compelled to act against his own will. Drafting men by lottery and therefore without bias is preferable to drafting them according to class distinctions. The student deferment should be abolished because it is inequitable -- it dramatically increases the coercion on particular sectors of the population by removing the rich and the smart from the manpower pool...
...group of students is planning a critique of Economics 1 -- the largest course in the University -- in which they will attack its "conservative bias...
...folks, as happened in the Brown game here this December. Harvard spectators are seldom vocal, and we appreciate this aspect of the image as much as anyone, but this reserve necessitates the presence of a greater quantity of Crimson rooters to fill the air with the proper hum of bias...
...organizers also felt that a union--especially one connected with the AFT--would have a straight wages-and-hours bias both inappropriate for the university community and inadequate for the variety of issues to be considered. They worried that the concept of trade unionism also might offend some teaching fellows, who often consider themselves professionals or future professionals...
...Critics of Professor Shockley [Feb. 3] unjustly claim that he seeks evidence for Negro inferiority to foster racial bias. There may be biological as well as environmental bases for social problems involving many individual Negroes. It may be that one means to equality of achievement for Negroes as a "racial" group is biological, i.e., by positive eugenics or by biological engineering when means are developed. Social actions are being taken on the basis of whether persons are white or Negro rather than on the basis of their individuality, and actions are being taken on the assumption that if environments...