Word: biasing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...older days, when candidates were more at the mercy of the press, there were frequent angry cries of bias. Hearing few such complaints from politicians this time, the Boston Globe's Winship frets that "we are probably not doing our job." That's more hair-shirting than is necessary; the rarity of partisan bias was refreshing. Several usually vociferous press commentators seemed stunned by unenthusiasm. "It's impossible to determine which of these men would be the more capable President," concluded the Washington Post's David S. Broder. On the Sunday before the election, Columnist Joseph...
...said she has tentatively organized two Forum discussions on "Institutional Racism and Sexism at the University" and on "Testing and Bias," which she said should "keep the issue alive...
...Third World countries. In a compromise resolution on UNESCO's much debated MacBride report-a global communications study by a panel of experts under the chairmanship of former Irish Prime Minister Sean MacBride-the West also fought off Third World attempts to exploit the report's bias toward government control as a basis for restricting the international news media...
...these tidbits that make this book absorbing reading. But Lyndon: An Oral Biographycan only be viewed as a montage of unconnected remembrances of the president. It offers no interpretation and much bias: it falls far short of the label biography
...writes, "I was an inauthentic social reformer if I hadn't even managed to set things right in my own life with my own children." She began attending seminars and teacher-training courses and observing children; she served as a member of a commission charged with eliminating sex bias from the New York City schools; and along the way she worked with Marlo Thomas on the TV special and accompanying LP Free...