Word: biased
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...students in universities. Test scores of minority applicants from ghetto schools and of lower socio-economic background, cannot be expected to come out as high as those of students from suburban schools and environments which stress educational achievement, especially when the tests continue to have a strong middle-class bias in content and value...
...most part, your list seems like the ten most liberal American dailies. Anyway, I have always suspected that TIME could not fathom the distinction between a left-leaning bias and quality journalism...
...change lies in France's exquisite fabrics-luxuriant silk, crepe de chine, shantung, georgette, satin. These are meticulously cut and joined, often on the diagonal introduced in the 1920s by Madeleine Vionnet -who is inactive but still alert at 97. The "bias cut" makes clothes drape sexily against the body. Since the favored fabrics of 1974 are gossamer-thin and always unlined, they need, even demand ample length to prevent skirts from being unintentionally hoisted at the slightest breeze. The result is a calf-length skirt that is wider, freer and not quite as long as the ill-fated...
Paris' fashions will not be easily copied; their opulent fabrics and bias cutting make certain of that. But they may well influence more top-of-the-line ready-made clothes in the U.S. than any other recent showing. Meanwhile, almost anyone can get a feel for the new-old look in accessories. "Jettison your wide belts and get thin ones," advises Robert Fountain, vice president of Lord & Taylor. "Buy high-heeled sandals. The chunky look has gone in earrings, shoes, handbags. Everything is finer, fresher, softer...
...nonprofit, nonpartisan council decided to look into Nixon's complaint. Discussions with Press Secretary Ron Ziegler and Ken Clawson, now director of White House communications, turned up six general areas of alleged TV bias, including coverage of the Christmas 1972 bombing of Hanoi and the "unfavorable" comments that accompanied news reports of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's ouster last October. The council dutifully assembled abstracts of network evening news shows and commentaries that touched on the six subjects and requested that Ziegler then tell it which of the approximately 200 specific segments the President considered "outrageous, vicious, distorted...