Word: biased
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
State criminal codes and common law empower judges to disqualify jurors for "cause" on a variety of specific grounds, such as opposing the death penalty in capital cases or simply admitting prejudice against either side. Because bias is hard to prove, both sides can also invoke a limited number of "peremptory" challenges (no explanation needed) that eliminate jurors on the merest hunch or suspicion of prejudice. Thus jurors may be rejected, rather than selected, in hopes that the twelve survivors are indeed biased-in favor of either side...
...more like high school? Perhaps he would prefer to approach problems such as the relationship between government and science, the conduct of foreign policy, or the management of the national economy through the use of pre-digested textbooks that really would convey the establishment line? The know-nothing bias which underlies his argument is truly breathtaking...
...enjoy TIME and Playboy equally-I hope with awareness of the bias in each...
Griswold's decision only affirmed Harvard's adherence to state law. But more important, it recognized a much-discussed student grievance. Many students had thought the Law School would refuse to take up the matter. Specific cases of bias are, after all, difficult to pinpoint, and the director of the Law School Placement Office denied allegations that she told students not to apply to certain law firms...
Banana Peel. Editing TIME during 1928, Luce, who had an early bias in favor of the activist and the entrepreneur, became especially engrossed in American business. Feeling that the press covered the field inadequately, he assigned a staff to explore the idea of a business magazine. Five months later, he decided the time was opportune. Among the names considered were Power and FORTUNE. Luce picked the latter because it appealed to his wife, the former Lila Ross Hotz of Chicago. They had married in 1923 and had two sons: Henry III, a Time Inc. vice president and the head...