Word: biases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must search for other ways of eliminating the risk of bias while protecting ourselves from pressures that may conflict with our desire to achieve the highest quality of appointments...
Instead, Bok suggested "procedural safeguards that will minimize the risk of bias or inadvertence in our selection process...
Letter to a Teacher and Wishes, Lies, and Dreamsare eloquent pleas on behalf of taking children seriously. Letter to a Teacher, written by eight Italian farmboys, 13 to 16 years old, challenges not only the selfish individual attitudes of teachers and administrators, but also the class bias of the Italian public school system. Wishes, Lies, and Drams includes an essay by Kenneth Koch on teaching children to write poetry, and 250 pages of children's poems that demonstrate that sensitivity and originality in self-expression are far more than the gifts of a genetically privileged...
...enough, say seven of the Post's black city-desk reporters. After almost two months of talks with management, the "Metropolitan Seven" have filed a formal complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charging racial bias in the newspaper's assignment and promotion policies. "This discrimination cannot continue to exist at a publication in a city that is 71.1% black," reads the complaint. "The lack of black participation in the shaping of the news reported by one of America's most prestigious newspapers is to us an insult to the black community." Their proposed solution: hire enough...
Anderson startled and embarrassed the Administration when he published secret papers showing a strong anti-Indian bias in Washington's handling of the India-Pakistan war. While hardly of the same magnitude, his story about Ambassador Arthur Watson getting drunk on a commercial airliner also produced red faces-and no denials. That was only a pinprick compared with his ITT charge. Anderson reported that the Justice Department settled an antitrust suit against ITT, on terms relatively favorable to the firm, at about the same time that ITT promised a contribution to help pay for the Republican Convention...