Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commodity as crucial as oil should not be allowed to become the pawn when the health and welfare of the world depend upon it. One dreams of the day when an effective U.N. could be responsible for the distribution and supply of world essentials, with proper reimbursement to the nation whose boundaries encompass the needed commodity...
...lives. Moreover, success often appears to demand at least a modicum of mental capacity. Consequently, the status differences among people will also be to a degree genetic. Finally, it follows that the more equally society distributes wholesome surroundings, education, and opportunities for social advancement, the more will social status depend on genetic differences, for the environmental differences will then have been minimized. I gloss over the details of the argument, so as to get on to other matters...
...thank her for relating to us some of what he has written and suggesting that the Crimson might do more. But I, for one, would rather hear what the man has to say for himself. I prefer to evaluate racism or other views myself rather than depend on Ms. Sagan's filtered version. I would even, forgive me dear editors, rather hear the original than read about it in the Crimson...
...specific tasks. Even in these contexts, but more critically in the context of school testing, it is important to evaluate the results of an I.Q. test in the light of the previous experience of the person entering the test situation: his mood, attitudes, motivations, anxieties affect his performance and depend on emotional and cultural factors which are almost never properly evaluated. The test itself is no more than a diagnostic, a sophisticated kind of x-ray; and even the most "objective" x-ray plate is interpreted differently by different experts...
...Arabs, foreign ministers of the nine-member European Common Market shucked their threadbare cloaks of neutrality. They jointly called on Israel to accept a settlement agreeable to the Arabs. Though the open capitulation to Arab demands has a craven air about it, the Europeans have no real alternative. They depend on the Arabs for 73% of their petroleum. Unlike the U.S., they have little oil of their...