Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychology challenged the "scientific" material he used for justification; and criticized his conclusion of a developing meritocracy. In a new article in Commentary magazine in April, 1973 (as well as in a book which appeared this week, IQ in the Meritocracy), Herrnstein merely repeats the "IQ Argument" he set forth last Fall, to paraphrase his three premises...
...year-old girl from the parking lot of a casino in Stateline, Nev., raped her and tied her to a tree. Hours later, police caught up with Bunyard driving the victim's car, but he escaped. There ensued a two-day, 500-mile chase back and forth across California. During that odyssey, Bunyard raped one more woman, shot two others, kidnaped several families and escaped twice more from the police. He was finally captured in the foothills of Mariposa, but not before he had been shot in the arms, legs and stomach...
...negotiations will be the desperate situation in Cambodia, where Communist and a wide variety of other antigovernment forces are making impressive headway. Last week they seized a part of the east bank of the Mekong River opposite Phnom-Penh's downtown port area. Ferries bustled back and forth bringing swarms of refugees fleeing villages only two miles away on the opposite bank...
...wades through a polluted creek that leaves his feet sealed in a coating of liquid plastic. Defiantly nacreous-footed, he wanders on into the motel cocktail lounge where Dwayne Hoover, after several drinks, staggers up to him and cries: "Give me the message! The message, please." Kilgore Trout thrusts forth one of his 117 unsuccessful novels, whose message is, "You are the only creature in the entire universe who has a free will ... Everybody else is a robot, a machine...
...plan--which took over one year to complete at a cost to the University of nearly $250,000--sets forth a policy which for the first time allows women to take maternity leaves with...