Word: biased
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is a bias at the Law School--able bodied straight white men," the CCR's Morris Ratner told the crowd assembled in front of Harkness Common...
...endure the embarrassment of vetoing it while Mandela is still in the U.S. The bill seeks to lessen the effect of several recent Supreme Court decisions that diluted existing federal affirmative-action and antidiscrimination law. In particular, the rulings made it harder for victims of discrimination to prove bias and bring lawsuits for redress in court. Bush has insisted that he will veto the bill if it is not amended to correct provisions that he says could have the effect of requiring employers to adopt racial quotas in hiring...
...long will strung-out $35,000-a-year families enjoy magazine articles about the hundred most successful businessmen in Dallas or television programs about the life-styles of the rich and famous," he writes ominously. "And the discontents that arise go well beyond lower-class envy or the anticommercial bias of academe...
...while the mayoral commission appointed to investigate the matter found significant evidence of bias, the City Council has yet to take any significant action to address the findings. Stanley Eichner of the Massachusetts attorney general's office says that the state is still conducting its own investigation into possible civil rights violations...
...reward. They continued as we passed between the Edenic Yard, with its manicured lawns and gardens, and Cambridge streets, with their community of the homeless. And some of us nurtured a "liberal intellect" while maintaining membership in clubs long known for their elitism, social exclusivity and sexual and racial bias...