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...mixed up in the Watergate case? Hunt admits that he had a political motive, which he dresses up rather elaborately. "There is a built-in bias by the intellectual community, including the news media, against people who want to preserve the best of our country's heritage. As for me, I don't want to exchange the good of this country for the uncertainties of change." Hunt also has a more practical explanation for his involvement: "I was not aware that my activity constituted a federal offense. I never personally went into Democratic offices, and I thought...
...were discriminated against. The Labor Department also ordered Bethlehem Steel Corp. to improve its job opportunities for blacks by revising its seniority system, an area usually regarded as a key preserve of management and unions. The moves, the farthest-reaching the Government has yet taken to root out bias in business, sent a chill of concern through managements across...
...said that the Department has not given adequate attention to the appointment of female junior faculty members, that it has displayed a bias towards quantitative sociologists in its last two appointments, and that it has de-emphasized candidates teaching qualifications...
...because they have been successful in another country. It has become fairly obvious by this time, that several of the tutors in Lowell House, enthusiastic over the English system because it seems to fit their personal needs, are unduly eager to start this house off with a strong anglophile bias...
...because he picks up on minor items that are perfect illustration of his points. The details may be improbable or commonplace, but are always appropriate. His approach is almost always tangential to his subject and his attitudes are implicit in what he writes. On occasion he publicly declared his bias, but even he relied mainly on apt illustration or pointed allusion to make his stance clear...