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Word: iq (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prep school and wrote raunchy, callow letters ("Have jewed sled down to $3 and maybe down more"). But there was none of the wildness usually associated with offspring of rich, flamboyant families. Instead we find a likable boy with a cool head and an IQ of 119 who was more interested in good times than good grades. He was a competent sailor, played some football and swam competitively until stomach trouble, fevers and a puzzling weight loss curtailed his activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jumpin'Jack Flash | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

Lawrence S. Eagleburger--The man with the highest IQ in the State Department should become a freelance "Jeopardy" coach with a specialty in European history...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Get a Job | 11/4/1992 | See Source »

...ease the plight of the dislocated and unemployed. So what is to be done with 3 million workers in the military industry and nothing but a pinched, depleted domestic economy awaiting them? Just one more fix, is the addict's witless, blubbering solution -- one more useless, death-dealing, high-IQ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Costly Addiction of All | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...those boring days, the rumors can get their fullest hearing, simply because the journalists have nothing else to file. This is especially true when they confirm a story's subtext, just as the Quayle rumors confirmed that Bush's campaigning is sinking faster than the vice president's IQ scores...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: White House Rumors And Roving Reporters | 7/28/1992 | See Source »

Welcome to the wide-eyed world of "smart drugs." Over the past two years, a growing number of IQ-hungry Americans -- from high school students to octogenarians -- have taken to chemical means of "cognitive enhancement," downing a variety of food supplements and prescription drugs to prepare for tests, prime themselves for business meetings or just burn a little brighter at parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ultra Think Fast | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

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