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...since most PACs are guided by the pragmatic desire for access to power. Many corporate PACs that supported successful conservative challengers in 1980 are concentrating this year on solidifying Republican gains. Only 15% of the PAC money has gone to challengers so far this election. In the past this bias toward incumbents meant that Democrats fared slightly better with PACs than Republicans, but now the increasing strength of corporate PACs (which give 65% of their money to Republicans) relative to labor PACs (which channel 90% of their funds to Democrats) could mean that G.O.P. candidates receive slightly more money...
...Government Prosecutor Ray Jahn argues that Jimmy Chagra was "greatly fearful of Judge Wood." He points out that Chagra's own lawyer had requested that Wood excuse himself from the case, citing bias, but Wood refused. According to the prosecution's scenario, Jimmy and Joseph then agreed to have the judge murdered, and in the spring of 1979 Jimmy met Charles Harrelson in Las Vegas and offered him the job. Jahn plans to introduce tape recordings made secretly by the FBI when Joseph visited Jimmy in 1980 in the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kans. On those tapes, says...
...students charge coaches with possible racial bias in choosing some varsity squads, particularly football, and in deciding how much to play various members of the team...
...This bias should come as no surprise, given the magazine's format: Most professions outside the world of finance simply do not lend themselves to tips on how to get in on the job market.("It's just a matter of pounding the pavement and convincing the boss that you want that positional," says post Allen Ginsberg...
Kirkland said when he asked Shields to disqualify himself because of bias, he refused...