Word: biased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Vietnamese nevertheless believe that Diem's Catholic ruling family has shown bias. Primarily middle-class landowners, Vietnamese Catholics are economically far more advanced than the Buddhists. Thousands of Buddhists have become converts to Catholicism in the hope that this would help them professionally or economically. Buddhists claim that the government gives Catholics better land for schools and church buildings and discriminates against Buddhist students in granting state scholarships. Unlike other religious groups, Buddhists must have special government permits to hold large meetings. "This puts us in the same category as the trade unions," says one Buddhist priest. With...
...Times, which ordinarily supports civil rights propositions of any sort, objected: "The cutting-off of funds for a particular program will deprive all citizens affected (Negro and white) of urgently needed services, thus accentuating the economic deprivation that is a basic cause of racial discrimination. Furthermore, the presence of bias in some states remains so wide spread that the end result might be just what the President says it should not be: withdrawal of all federal aid and the virtual exclusion of the offending state from the Union. That is unacceptable." For that matter, President Kennedy himself, as recently...
Considering the freshmen's political bias, it is natural that their first impression of the Senate would not be of its power, or of its place in the order of things, but of its people. And Birch Bayh's impression was typical: "it's been wonderful." Besides the oath book ceremony, there are luncheons given by the leadership, and the little gestures that any politician appreciates. Daniel Inouye found his reception "extremely good, embarrassingly good. The senior members go out of their way to be nice to you; they even took me around to the masseur...
...evidence concerning the foreman's bias is met with a statement that his friend "must have misunderstood" his remark that the "guineas" "ought to hang anyway." The statement of the policemen to the effect that the foreman was prejudiced against Italians was ignored...
This is a book that would have annoyed Rousseau; probably he would have accused the writer of bias, and of seeing modern civilized evils in the simple life of primitive man. For Under the Mountain Wall presents a picture of stone age existence in New Guinea that is filled with just as much anxiety, anguish and striving as the life of any modern city dweller...