Word: dorfman
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...characters include Fitzsimmons, Tony Provenzano (the New Jersey Teamster/mobster who Brill says orchestrated Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance), Jimmy Hoffa Jr. (a Detroit labor lawyer outsider, waiting for his father to float to the top), Ron Carey (a rare, honest Teamster local president in New York), Allen Dorfman (who made millions from his insurance monopoly with the Teamsters, then helped loot the pension funds), Jackie Presser (Cleveland Teamster boss, jockeying to succeed Fitzsimmons), Harold Gibbons (progressive St. Louis Teamster leader, who Brill says could have turned the union around if he hadn't sold out to fast cars and women...
Professor D.D. Dorfman of the University of Iowa, writing in the September 29 edition, stated that the late Dr. Cyril Burt fabricated data in support of his theories on the inheritability of IQ. Dorfman's article is the latest in a series of attacks on Burt's evidence since he died...
Herrnstein said that while Dorfman's article was "generally quite good," Dorfman overlooked Burt's admission that he had "normalized" his data. "Normalizing data as Burt did is not unusual when you aren't working with standardized IQ tests," Herrnstein added...
William Shockley, author of a controversial theory that correlates IQ with race, said yesterday "the American intellectual community" has demonstrated "profound intellectual irresponsibility" on this issue. He added that while "Dorfman has done a sound piece of work," his conclusion is "not entirely warranted...
...Robert Dorfman, Wells Professor of Political Economy, who specializes in environmental issues, said he spends 20 per cent of the academic year consulting, nearly all of it for the federal government. Asked if he had done any consulting for industry, he said, "Virtually never. Maybe we can find a few exceptions, but I can't think of any of them...