Word: biases
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...bias is even evident in the poster animals for the animal rights movement. How many rats have been used in speeches to evoke compassion? Most of the animals we think of in research are primates and rabbits. Yet federal agencies estimate that of the 17 to 22 million animals used in laboratory research, 85 percent of those are rats and mice...
Afro-American Studies and Women's Studies were instituted as concentrations as the result of political pressure--either from students accusing the University of racial or gender bias or from wealthy alumni applying force through donations. To be intellectually honest, the staff should either support one or multiple new departments (or categories of thought) for each of the protesting ethnicities or call for doing away with them altogether...
...were also idealistic in a way hard to understand in 1996. Europe would be reconstructed; this time world government would succeed; racial and religious bias would end. And, one way or another, we all would be a part...
...Performance or Age Bias...
...cannot accept this nomination--and prefer to stand with the egregiously overlooked," said Andrews, still in costume. Perhaps most overlooked: director Blake Edwards, Andrews' husband, whose career could have used a boost from a Best Musical nomination. Says Tony Adams, a Victor/Victoria producer: "There seems to be a bias against commercial shows." The Tony organizers might have reveled in all the attention were it not for the fact that Andrews was to be the big draw for the televised awards show in June. All that remains is her name as a nominee--against her wishes. There will probably...