Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced plans to go national with Save Our Children. Cities across the country are starting to struggle with the gay-rights problem, and only Massachusetts is in the process of approving a bill forbidding public agencies to discriminate against homosexuals in hiring employees. A federal bill protecting gays against bias, introduced by Congressman Ed Koch, has so far collected 38 cosponsors. Whatever happens in Miami this week, the fight for-and against-gay rights is just beginning...
Seniority lists that deliberately discriminate are still illegal, whether they were started before or after the 1964 act. But that concession gave little comfort to lawyers who have waged crusades against job bias. Proving that a seniority system was set up with the intent to discriminate is extraordinarily difficult. The result: last week's decision almost eliminates long-established seniority systems as whipping boys for job-bias activists...
...enter into Harvard's shareholder decisionmaking in only a peripheral way. Smith's statement that "the Harvard Corporation takes the ACSR very seriously and leans heavily on it for advice" is utterly ridiculous. To support this statement, Smith is forced to ignore some funamental facts about the composition and bias of the ACSR, as well as to mislead the reader in discussing the record of Harvard Corporation/ACSR agreement on shareholder resolutions...
...BIAS IN EDUCATION. The document charges blatant discrimination in the schools, despite guarantees of equal education in the national constitution. Children of outspoken believers are systematically excluded from some types of higher education by a rule requiring applicants to provide recommendations from the Communist Youth League, the petition says...
...musical attempts a whimsically feminist revision of the story of original sin. But since feminism can be as conventional as sexism, the whimsey--rather than the protest against the myth's male bias--wins out. The notion that God might be a she instead of a he is amusing to play with. And if the first woman had gone by description alone, she might, like Ravenal's Eve, have assumed that the forbidden fruit was a cranberry and have served up apple pies with innocent impunity. Adam proves to be inept at naming the animals, and the simian creature that...