Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your story about Arthur Jensen's conclusion that blacks score lower on IQ tests than whites [Sept. 24], you say "Jensen's findings clearly have horrendous implications." This is not at all true. Although the entire black population may (if Jensen's findings are correct) have a lower average IQ than the white population, a given black person may have a higher IQ than a given white person. Thus one cannot say that all blacks are less intelligent than all whites. Jensen's findings, regardless of their validity (and it may not be worthwhile spending time...
...rise. In such circumstances the dollar is lost, and attempts to save it will only ruin the nation's industry by making such exports as computers, airplanes and chemicals vastly too expensive in Japan or Germany, and imports like autos far too cheap at home. Former Fed Chairman Arthur Burns told the Belgrade conference that the turmoil in world exchange markets would not end until "reasonably good control over inflationary forces has been achieved, especially...
MacDonald is one of the few crime writers since Arthur Conan Doyle to rate a regular newsletter for fans (JDM Bibliophile is published twice yearly at the Uni versity of Southern Florida); he is also one of the American authors to have won France's coveted Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. But critics and scholars have lots of time to catch up. MacDonald's mind still brims with mayhem for McGee. And there are lots of colors to go. "Let's see," says John D., sitting down to work. "There's ocher, ultramarine, peach, beige, cherry...
...Democrat Arthur Okun complains that the Fed has lost much of its control over credit policy as a result of innovations, such as money market certificates and mortgage-backed securities, that are designed to keep banks and thrift institutions flush with funds for home loans. Says Okun: "Money is easy but expensive, and nobody is saying no to any borrower. They're saying, 'The price is high. Won't you take...
Theater is a powerful form of expression and source of "enormous vitality" in China, playwright Arthur Miller told 50 students gathered in Currier House Senior Common Room yesterday...