Word: biased
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...retrospect, Bunshaft's abstract sculpture reflects the anti-urban bias of the early modern movement. Its vertical slab interrupts the building line along East 54th Street. Such disruption is now considered detrimental to an orderly street pattern. And the court Bunshaft created is uninviting and mostly empty...
...Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government strikes again. Let's ignore the political bias of those who run the place as well as that of most of the guests they invite. Let's look simply at the design and, in particular, the amount of seating in the Forum. The story is that the Forum was designed by K-School students. Assuming that they have graduated and are now participating in the running of our government, it is not difficult to understand why we are in such a sorry state...
...spontaneously forming a pacifist group outside the ranks of the official Soviet Peace Committee. Then, late last year, TASS launched a strong anti-Semitic attack on the pacifists, several of whom are Jewish. Though there is no evidence that the peace group members have a pro-Israeli bias, TASS made the claim that "while supposedly fighting for peace, they openly regret that they did not have an opportunity to take part in the bloody slaughter organized by the Zionists in occupied Lebanon." There is a fear that the current campaign characterizing the peace group as an anti-Soviet "Trojan horse...
...machine. "There's a lot more to selling equipment to major corporations than knocking on the door and taking orders," says Charles Hoerner of Foremost McKesson, who is shopping for a computer system for the San Francisco-based conglomerate. "There are lots of organizations that have an IBM bias. They are not particularly open minded." Says Barry Smith, Lisa's marketing manager: "Corporate life does not reward risk takers, and there's the old adage that you never lose your job by buying...
...time of Furman it was widely recognized that the system was unquestionably stacked against black defendants, especially in the "death belt" of the South. Some of the racism has been wrung out. Yet clear bias remains, much attributable to prosecutorial choices. A recent study of homicide cases in Houston's Harris County is troubling. In cases where a black or Chicano had killed a white, 65% of defendants were tried for capital murder; only 25% of whites who killed a black or Chicano faced the death penalty. "I don't think it's overt racism," says University...