Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emphasis, but a complete overhaul. To be sure, Communism scored great accomplishments in turning backward Russia into a major industrial power in half a century, with a G.N.P. approaching $600 billion. But the development has been uneven. The Soviet command-style economy, with its rigid planning, central controls and bias against experimentation, simply no longer works effectively. Specialization demands decentralization. No single, central planning agency can fine-tune a diversified modern economy. The industrialized world has passed into a new and more mature technological stage in which, as Wayne State Professor Richard Burks puts it, "Economic growth will depend...
...forces opposing abortion are developing their own battery of sophisticated ethical arguments. Some are old theological positions updated; others borrow from Western legal tradition; still others offer modern sociological, medical and scientific evidence. All of those arguments are examined in three solidly reasoned books that share one bias: a pronounced concern for human life, including fetal life...
...arguments and options, the Roman Catholic intellectual and former editor of Commonweal tries to avoid what he calls "the mentality of the crusader." The problem, he argues, is priorities: the church's heart is in the right place in defending the sanctity of human life, but the bias too heavily favors fetal life alone. Yet he rejects abortion-on-request because it is based on women's rights alone...
James W. Wetzler, a second-yeargraduate student, contradicting Rosovsky's statement, said that the faculty did indeed have an anti-radical political bias. To support this he read parts of a letter of recommendation written by Professor Richard E. Caves to the department of economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook about Herbert M. Cintis, then a graduate student...
Hovels. Young's most publicized plea was for a "domestic Marshall plan" to help U.S. blacks recover from "more than three centuries of abuse, humiliation, segregation and bias...