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...country, he appeared on the Phil Donahue television show and calmly argued that the shortage was not contrived. A chemical engineer and an Exxon man for 34 years, Garvin believes that energy price controls have promoted profligacy and impeded production. Says he: "If we can shift the underlying bias in U.S. economic policy away from consumption and toward production, we can solve our problems...
...they argue that the fetus deserves no moral consideration as it develops into a human being. Says Pro-Choice Advocate Daniel Callahan of the Institute of Society, Ethics and Life Sciences: "A respect for the sanctity of life, with its bias in favor even of undeveloped life, is enough to make the taking of such a life a moral problem...
Finally, it is insensitive at the worst time to the minority students at Currier who undoubtedly (and probably accurately) perceive that a large portion of the bias against Currier is caused by their presence in such large numbers in the House...
Karen Jacoby, secretary to James A. Argeros, general manager of the Coop, said yesterday she will collect the petitions and check for duplicate signatures, adding that there would be no bias against the members of the cooperative slate in the nomination procedure...
...Leonid Zamyatin, chief of the Central Committee's International Information Department. He is a former director of TASS who operates under the guidance of the party's longtime chief ideologist, Mikhail Suslov. TASS serves as the backbone of Soviet propaganda. The bluntness of TASS's bias often works against it. For example, the Soviets in 1963 provided, free of charge, equipment for receiving TASS bulletins to the fledgling Kenyan news agency. The Kenyans, however, soon started using the equipment to receive Britain's Reuters wire service as well. A former Kenyan journalist says he was supposed...