Word: biased
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the left, but they have not enjoyed the same warm reception. When figures like Tipper Gore or Senator Paul Simon crusade against television violence, they are praised as defenders of America's children. When Dole brings a similar message to the American public, he is criticized sharply. While bias in the media should no longer surprise us, it should still upset...
...graduates of the Harvard School of Education will receive the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Research and Development Award in recognition of their research on bias against women in classrooms...
...husband and wife team are responsible for what the AAUW calls "ground-breaking research on...pervasive, yet subtle gender bias against girls in America's classrooms...
...disparate sentences were Congress's hasty answer to the drug panic that swept America in 1986, following the rapid spread of crack sales through major urban areas. Ironically, it was the cocaine death that summer of Len Bias, a promising basketball player who had recently been drafted by the Boston Celtics, that propelled Congress to act. Then Speaker Tip O'Neill, his ears ringing from the outcry of his Cambridge constituents, pressed House committees for swift antidrug legislation. "We didn't have hearings on this, which is really extraordinary," says Eric Sterling, then counsel to the House Judiciary Committee...
...Church of Christ's recruiting tactics are at best harassment and at worst mind-control. We believe the College has a strong interest in not allowing the Church, or a group representing its interests, to use Harvard's name and facilities to solicit Harvard students....It is not religious bias that has brought administrators at Boston University to expel it from campus and those at MIT to suspend its activities....The group cannot be autonomous and its parent group refuses to respect Harvard's ban on proselytism....We support Dean Epps' opposition to the group and hope Dean Jewett will...