Word: biased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EEPC officials say they are forced to seekfunding for their research from companies who havea vested interest in the outcome, but that theyhave set up systems to safeguard againstunobjective results. They concede, though, thatcharges of bias will inevitably accompany theirresearch as it is released into the general policydebate because of the way they must raise money...
...investigators' final report debunking Benveniste's research did not imply that there had been fraud. But it did conclude that the experiments were flawed and that no substantial effort had been made to exclude systematic error, including observer bias. Reported Maddox and his team: "We believe the laboratory has fostered and then cherished a delusion about the interpretation of its data." The report expressed dismay that the salaries of two of Benveniste's colleagues had been paid by a French supplier of homeopathic medicines. The Nature investigators admitted, however, that the same firm had paid their hotel bill...
...brief argues that if Harvard's objections are sustained, the ruling would establish a new precedent that would bias elections in the employer's favor. It argues that employers have access to voters' opinions through supervisors, while unions have no other means than polling to elicit such information...
...past several years, Iran has been busy making itself the world's odd man out: ignoring United Nations efforts to end its war with Iraq, boycotting the U.N. Security Council because of its alleged anti-Tehran bias, attacking neutral shipping in the Persian Gulf. Last week it paid the price for its self-imposed isolation. Twice it sought an international condemnation of the U.S. on an issue on which Washington would otherwise have been vulnerable, the July 3 shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 over the gulf. But twice it came away with nothing...
Jackson is plainly needled by Dukakis' apparent bias toward older and less compelling public men, whom Jackson caustically regards as either in "semiretirement" or capable only of "gestures without very much importance." Jackson won't openly criticize a Dukakis-John Glenn ticket, but will say the ticket should be "one step in the present and one in the future, not one step in the present and one in the past...