Word: slant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more charged than the desire for more exploration of sociological topics are calls for a political voice akin to that of activists who taught in the early 70s and for a different academic approach, with a more "Afrocentric" slant to class offerings and departmental view points...
...chairs of the Academics Committee of the Undergraduate Council, we are writing in response to the poor story Daniel Steinman wrote about the Concentration Fair. Instead of focusing on the positive aspects of the Fair, Mr. Steinman opted to slant the facts in such a manner as to support the Crimson agenda of deriding nearly every event that the Council undertakes...
...tank allied with organized labor, complained that "you don't want to run your economic policy entirely around the concerns of Wall Street investors." Elena Hanggi from Little Rock, who trains community organizers and is invited to Clinton's economic conference this week, expressed "disappointment" at the pro-business slant of his top economic advisers but remains cautiously optimistic. In Washington as in Arkansas, she said, "Bill Clinton is trying to make changes without making waves...
...portrayal of Bill Clinton as a knight on horseback conveys more hope than irony, whereas a similar picture of Ronald Reagan or George Bush would have been meant as a sneer at the president's delusions of grandeur. Perhaps some of this is due to the media's liberal slant, but not all. Both liberal and conservative politicians are routinely subjected to the sort of ridicule which Clinton is presently being spared. What, then, is the reason for this new optimism about politicians...
Because the foundation's program has anexplicit ideological slant, it is forcing the newlegislators to think along partisan lines,McLaughlin said...