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...Corporate Planner John W. Heil-shorn "had a very real feeling when I walked in that I was guilty before I took the witness stand." Heilshorn found that the interviewers generally assumed that his institution is "a big, fat New York bank hoarding capital" and held "a clear bias toward centralized Government control" of private business. Says Wriston: "Most of the Nader team saw the experience as an adversary proceeding. Whatever you told them, they acted like you were trying to mislead." The investigators turned down an offer from the bank for each of its division heads to give...
Thus the audience is being deprived of half of his potential wit because of political bias and expediency...
...possibly avoid doing so. The approach rouses strong reactions in the academic community. Says Stanford's Amsterdam: "As long as there is a court at the top that is protective enough of constitutional rights, the lower courts will strike a balance against the overwhelming conservative bias of legislators, cops and prosecutors. Take away the liberal threat at the top and the entire system goes rotten...
...public housing units in predominantly white areas, and 41 welfare families claimed that this violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. A federal district court agreed. But Justice Hugo Black, writing for the Supreme Court majority, held that "referendums demonstrate devotion to democracy, not to bias, discrimination or prejudice." The California law, he added, does not rest on "distinctions based on race...
...charges of racial bias stem from Gimbel's alleged refusal to live up to an agreement made with Harlem Fight Back to institute an on-the-job training program for black and Puerto Rican workers at the construction site of a new Gimbels store located at 86th Street and Lexington Ave, in New York City...