Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rights and other fields.* Executive Director William Arthur, a former editor of Look, blames the council's slow beginnings on public ignorance of its existence and on the naiveté of early complaints. "Too many of them had to do with editorial opinion rather than accuracy," he says. "Bias is not something we handle." Associate Director Ned Schnurman concedes that only "about seven" of the council's 34 cases thus far have been "significant." But he adds: "Now we are getting the kind of cases that will make the council worthwhile...
...race. The majority may not go along, but what Douglas seemed to be suggesting was that if the school were to recast its admissions approach-for instance, by adding points to the law-board scores of any applicants who might be considered victims of the test's cultural bias-it could avoid the entire constitutional discrimination problem. The effect would still be to help minority students who might otherwise fail to meet the entrance requirements...
...least the past five years reformers have sought to modify the department's generally conservative bias, first by demanding that the ranks of tenured professors include Marxian economists, then, in the past year, by working within the department's committee structure to insure a place in the curriculum where Marxian economics could be systematically taught...
...suing to have the decree set aside. Average back pay for each worker will come to $750; by contrast, a recent judgment against Northwest Airlines could be worth as much as $18,000 for a longtime employee. Also, the decree grants the industry immunity from any other job-bias suits until it expires in five years; if any are filed by workers who believe they are still being discriminated against, the Government will intervene on the side of the companies and union...
Government bias busters may have a chance to redeem themselves in the eyes of the civil rights groups. A number of federal agencies are investigating possible job discrimination at some of the largest U.S. corporations. General Motors, General Electric, Ford and Sears already have been named as targets by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and other cases are expected in such basic industries as copper and aluminum...