Word: biases
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jackson is plainly needled by Dukakis' apparent bias toward older and less compelling public men, whom Jackson caustically regards as either in "semiretirement" or capable only of "gestures without very much importance." Jackson won't openly criticize a Dukakis-John Glenn ticket, but will say the ticket should be "one step in the present and one in the future, not one step in the present and one in the past...
Some things never change, such as the Democrats' compulsion to list in encylopedic detail all the forms of bias they abhor. A safe bet: the social- science buzz word multicultural will not appear in the G.O.P. platform...
...adds that universities are likely to fight harder against charges of bias "because the accusation of discrimination is directly counter to what most universities stand for, and no university takes it lying down...
Dalton, a CLS adherent, received support from a majority of the faculty, including Vorenberg, but not the two-thirds she needed for tenure. Eighteen professors subsequently petitioned Bok for a review, charging the Law School faculty with political bias...
...case, which has been in litigation since 1984, has aired Jackson's accusations of inconsistent tenure standards for men and women, the presence of a "institutional bias" against women at the school and revelations that Harvard destroyed 10 years' worth of confidential tenure documents relevant to the case...