Word: biased
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor of Law L. Lawrence Lessig is the special master in the anti-trust litigation against Microsoft. In January, Microsoft tried to have Lessig removed from the case, arguing that the professor had demonstrated bias against Microsoft in e-mail messages to Netscape executives...
...cities have been granted a lot of leeway to ban topless dancing in the interests of maintaining decency, and bars have already fought it on freedom-of-speech grounds and lost," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "So they needed a new hook." Their breast defense? "Naked bias." Lawyers for the bar argued that the law wrongly distinguished male topless dancing from female. It didn't work, with the high court deferring without comment to this appeals court ruling from last March: "We must recognize that the public reactions to the exhibition of the female breast and the male breast...
...Since the study controls for college performance," Kidder said, "there is some combination of cultural bias on the test and atmospheric bias...
...many say the results of the study do notnecessarily indicate bias and are not necessarilysurprising...
...political correctness only codifies this recognition into a policy. Invoking political correctness forces the person who called me a "Chink" to accept that what he or she has said offends me. I might call that person a racist, forcing him or her to come to terms with the personal bias the language betrays...