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...steady rate of perhaps 4% a year, rather than permit the Federal Reserve to expand or contract it by greater amounts. He says that his aim is to "return control of our monetary policy to the President and Congress" and "rid the Reserve System of its tight-money bias...
...books and magazines, only the Bulletin has so far received the official bathroom seal of approval. The stamp does not reflect the political bias of Lamont, though, a student employee said. The magazines are placed there to keep undergraduates from writing on the walls...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick: "Stubborn, slow-thinking and bellicose, with a definite anti-British bias, which rumor attributes to the fact that he is still resentful of the canings he received whilst a schoolboy at Eton...
Dead Center. Like their parent organization, a former street gang in Chicago, most of the New York Lords are nominal Catholics. But the Lords' "Information Minister," known simply as Yoruba, 20, denies any bias in seizing the church of a Spanish-speaking Protestant minority. The Lords cite its strategic location in East Harlem-"dead center"-and maintain that while most area churches have attempted some sort of social-action programs, First Methodist "hasn't done a thing...
Open admissions programs at universities strike Middle Americans as unfair and illogical violations of the merit system. Beyond that, they see a bias toward blacks in conventional admissions policies. "If anything," says Futurist Herman Kahn, "they believe that a black face helps. A Middle American can't send his kid to Harvard, but he knows the black man down the street can, if the boy is bright enough." Middle American workers frequently feel that blacks are given preferential treatment in job hiring. Says Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who has made a study of the grievances of Middle America: "They...