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As part of its effort to make SALT II politically palatable, the Carter Administration ordered the development of the mobile MX, a ten-warhead successor to the three-warhead Minuteman, which would move around in a giant shell game to foil Soviet targeting. The trouble with MX is its mobile...
* it could offer a final exam but no make-up, basing the course grade of a student on his previous work.
Poverty, in Gilder's analysis, "is less a state of income than a state of mind." Basing his conclusions on more than a year's research in New York and South Carolina ghettos, he believes that generous Government welfare payments discourage work and foster an attitude of dependency...
Overemphasis on the polls had some interesting consequences. Historians will debate how much Carter's irresolution and waffling stemmed from too much attention to Patrick Caddell's incessant and expensive opinion sampling. The Washington Post's Haynes Johnson blames himself and his press colleagues for basing so...
Bok says he did not ask Klitgaard "to investigate the abilities or performance of particular groups of students--either by sex, race, or religion." But in effect that is what the bulk of Klitgaard's report does, making statements about different groups' relative performance and success on tests and in...