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John F. Kennedy was the first President to call for "affirmative steps," in Executive Order 10925, issued in 1961. With that measure barring job discrimination among contractors doing business with the Federal Government, Kennedy recognized that desegregation would take more than the mere absence of overt bias among contractors. So Washington told contractors on federal projects actively to recruit minorities and encourage their promotion...
McGinnis added, "There is a tremendous bias towards history, and not enough emphasis on ideas...
...have a real bias against those who have sat in their high school libraries grinding out their A's," Young adds...
Lasch said Friday he believes social science today--as well as social scientists--contain an implicit status quo bias...
...ethnic, working-class West Side (his father is Croatian, his mother Irish). At 23, he won a seat on the city council and six years later was elected clerk of courts, the city's second highest elective office. A maverick Democrat with a strong anti-Establishment bias, he has built his power base among poor and working-class voters. Says he: "They need someone to stand up and fight for them." Once he even invited Cleveland's civic leaders to breakfast with him at Tony's Diner, where he has eaten for years. His usual order...