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...book How to Expand Your Social Intelligence Quotient (M. Evans; $9.95), Archer writes that while a high S.I. helped make Bell a great doctor, today's medical schools, psychiatric institutes and other professional training centers ignore it when picking their students. Says he: "Verbal intelligence has a dismal record for predicting success [in a career]. To rely on it alone is a form of intellectual habit. We are operating a fraudulent system of professional credentialing...
Jimmy Carter has been under heavy pressure to propose an economic program because the dismal state of business appears to be one of his Administration's greatest weaknesses as the presidential campaign opens. But Carter received a bit of unexpected, though illusory, economic news last week: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that consumer prices did not increase in July. That was the first month that the cost of living had not risen in more than 13 years. But experts quickly admitted that this was a statistical fluke. The cost of food, automobiles and medical care continued to soar...
...addition to these problems, Brazil has a relatively new and even more pressing problem-piles and piles of debt. Keeping company with such indigent nations as Zaïre, Peru and Bangladesh, Brazil has earned the dismal distinction of being the developing country that has plunged most deeply into deficit. At the moment, it owes the astonishing total of more than $50 billion, mainly to international banks...
...construction trade, one of America's most important industries, the economic signals are highly conflicting. Despite a modest improvement in single-family home sales in May, the housing market remains in a state of shock. At the present low rate of new residential construction, 1980 could gain the dismal distinction of being the worst year since 1945, when the U.S. built fewer than 1 million new homes and apartments. This performance is especially appalling because 35 years ago the U.S. population was only 140 million, in contrast to 220 million today...
...first half of Smile Please is an exquisite memoir of young Jean's school days in Dominica, the West Indies, with its brilliant forests and its harsh contrasts in black and white. The second section details Rhys' life in England. She arrived at that other, far more dismal island when she was 16 and attended school for a year, until her father's death forced her to quit. For the next two years she toured, incongruously, as a chorus girl in musical comedies. A decade later she married and moved to Paris. There, except...