Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasons for this persistent bias are complex. Part of it is due to the particular skills the industry requires; part to the fact that the industry's greatest expansion came at the time when hiring discrimination was an accepted practice. But whatever the reasons, the results are oppressively clear. As the EEOC's chairman, William Brown, told a meeting of 115 large utility companies in 1969, the utilities have had "the worst equal employment record of all industry groupings in America." The evidence, Brown said, "will graphically demonstrate that the most effective methods of discrimination and exclusion are being practiced...
...cosmos is only 4.5 per cent black-with nearly all of those filling traditional roles as janitors or unskilled workers. Preliminary reports on other Middle South companies in which Harvard holds direct bonds-Arkansas Power and Light and Louisiana Power and Light-show equally debilitating hiring bias...
Such startling showmanship is part of a creative uprising that is transforming the once stodgy European ad scene and bringing a rapid end to the Old World bias against advertising. The U.S. still leads the world in ad expenditures (1969: $19.5 billion, up 7% from 1968), but ad outlays in Europe are rising faster. In the countries that make most use of advertising-West Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands-expenditures last year totaled $6.3 billion, up 12.5% from $5.6 billion...
Speakers Attack Bias Of Visiting Committee
Ultimately, order in the court rests on the dignity and self-control of the individual judge. Judge Hoffman allowed the Chicago Seven and their lawyers to goad him into displaying an obvious bias in favor of the prosecution. By contrast. Judge Murtagh so far has stoically put up with Panther provocations day after day, and even adjourned the trial just when the defendants wanted to commemorate the birthday of Panther Huey Newton. He had clearly studied the experience of colleagues-like U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Harold R. Medina, who says: "With these disruptive people, the more you kick them...