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Reforming the tax code would also end a bias against low-income and unemployed workers. The present system most benefits those with high incomes. These wealthier employees have the best health care plans, so they receive the largest tax breaks...

Author: By George Wang, | Title: The Medisave Route to Health Reform | 10/13/1993 | See Source »

...addition, a Crimson investigative report revealed in February that Harvard's funding of men's sports--nearly $2.3 million in fiscal 1992--was more than double what it spent on women's teams. Critics of the athletic department said the financial figures were tangible evidence of Harvard's bias in favor of men's sports...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: New Plan Bolsters Women's Sports | 10/8/1993 | See Source »

Political magazines have presented this strategy as an insidious plot, a secret infiltration that Americans won't detect until it's too late. The doomsday articles only betray the media's unmistakable bias against the far right. Independent of ideology and policy goals, the grass-roots network is excellent politics...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Real Empowerment | 9/25/1993 | See Source »

...standardized test scores the Mecca of objectivity that people like Stonecypher seek. The value of these tests has long been disputed, and studies have suggested that the tests carry a cultural bias and measure not intelligence or aptitude, but very specific knowledge...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Stonecypher's Suit of Sour Grapes | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

...Based on the investigation, a reasonable person could conclude that there is evidence that the chief has some bias against the complainant because she is female, and that that bias has adversely affected her raises," the report says...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Police Dept. Settles Sexism Complaint | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

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