Word: biases
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Churches remove the male bias of Luke...
...like mind on the blackout. "Rather than mount ing a constitutional soapbox," said the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "the press might better spend its time contemplating why it was not informed and in vited." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat volunteered a blunt explanation: "... the television networks' antidefense bias." Declared conservative Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan: "If senior U.S. commanders running this operation harbor a deep distrust of the American press, theirs is not an unmerited contempt...
...bias? A judge says...
...have sent 35 percent fewer cases than last year to Washington for prosecution. Even considering post-Burford paralysis, this is disgraceful for an EPA chief who pledged enforcement to be high on his list of priorities. And perhaps most alarming of all, Ruckelshaus has shown a decided bias towards "risk-management," or the balancing of the harms of dangerous substances against their benefits to society. Although not inherently wrong--all substances possess at least some risk--Ruckelshaus has utilized this approach too broadly, to the detriment of harmful substance banning. This approach, while less confrontational, is still fundamentally identical...
...disappointed with your article on Nicaragua [Oct. 17] and its subtle but strong bias in favor of Ronald Reagan's policies. With the U.S. trying to destroy Nicaragua economically and militarily, it is no surprise that the country is preparing for war or that press censorship exists (we have also had it during wartime). No wonder improvements in health and education are coming slowly and Nicaraguans are paranoid about contras in their midst. The Sandinistas have the overwhelming support of the people. Our Government should let Nicaragua get on with its political experiment...