Word: biased
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...color line in mutual incomprehension as yet another trial of American race relations unfolds in the City of Angels. To whites, the central issue is whether Simpson is a murderer, while to blacks it is whether the process that brought him to trial was fatally contaminated by racial bias. Simpson is still no hero to most blacks, but he has become an indelible symbol of their mistreatment by white authority. "We always reach out to another black person we perceive as being mistreated by whites because it has happened to so many of us," says Darlene Powell Hopson, a black...
This political bias reveals itself in the specific concerns of the student committee report. While they advocate a professor of "comparative ethnic studies," they also seek faculty who would examine the specific ethnic histories of American Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans...
Though they claim nobly that, "From bias free of every kind, this trial must be tried," the jury and their powerful voices are easily swayed by the truthful testimony and trim ankles of the plaintiff. Like the female chorus of would-be brides(maids), the male chorus is a mighty foursome of harmony and ham. As the usher, Thomas Munro is up to the task of keeping them and his own monumental pronouncements in line...
...last item discussed by the Faculty Council was health plan increases. According to a letter sent to Harvard faculty and staff, "premium increases in the HealthFlex Bias and Bay State plans are no substantial," officials are giving advance warning...
...study, conducted by French researcher Jacques Benveniste and published by Nature in 1988, was challenged by a Nature-sponsored team of investigators who flew to Paris to watch Benveniste repeat his experiments. The team found that the tests were "ill-controlled" and failed to exclude "systematic error, including observer bias...