Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only time two short and immeasurable years ago, relegated by some to a perennial shadow stretching at the feet of the male rowing oligarchy thriving across the Charles, ridiculed and down-graded during the early and faultering stages of emergence, struggling against the interest and facilities and innate attitudinal bias of a male oriented community, striving and pushing the nose of its program into a male-oriented and dominated sport, gathering and cherishing every scrap and morsel of attention, keeping logs and impossible hours, answering each derogation with a confidence foreshadowing with a wisdom and clairvoyance a perception far beyond...
...fight began on Jan. 10, when A.M.A. Executive Vice President Ernest B. Howard sent a protest letter to NBC President Julian Goodman. Howard attacked what he called the program's "frequent inaccuracy and overall bias," pointing out 29 instances in which NBC had, by the A.M.A.'s standards, distorted the truth. Howard demanded equal air time for an A.M.A. rebuttal...
...billion a year. It provides for a direct dole to growers of wheat, cotton and feed grains when prices drop below fixed target levels. The targets are much higher than the historical market price of these commodities, thus increasing the chances for bigger handouts and locking an inflationary bias into farm policy for the next four years. For example, at this time last year the selling price of wheat was $1.69 a bushel: corn was $1.30 and cotton 35 cents. In the Senate version of the bill, the Government would make up the difference to farmers if the price...
Boorstin's bias, which he reveals in a marvelously personal, crotchety set of bibliographical notes, is toward "the universal and the commonplace." Since this is an American history, he emphasizes commerce, technology and increasingly conspicuous consumption...
...working years, they saved money to go into business as antique dealers. Then Helga ran off with the money. Heartbroken-and furious-Erika went to the police and charged Helga with pimping, but the case was dismissed because the German penal code recognizes only men as procurers. That legal bias will be corrected some time next fall, when a new law will make pimping by either sex a criminal offense. Small comfort for Erika, however. Her once beloved Helga has already used Erika's earnings to open an antique shop...