Word: iq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Havana with a funny name. Bush pointedly ignored the protests of such close advisers as Secretary of State James Baker, leading the Washington establishment to conclude that he had "done another Quayle." Sununu was obviously brilliant: a three-term Governor of New Hampshire and former engineering professor with an IQ estimated at 180. He had been an invaluable political asset, rescuing Bush's faltering campaign by masterminding a victory in the New Hampshire primary. But he lacked any experience in the clannish world of Washington and was so relentlessly abrasive that one wag dubbed him "Morton Downey Jr. with...
...Peninsula editor read the article on page 13 and realize that Massachusetts doesn't have centralized economic planning? Is this some kind of hidden IQ test? Do McLaughlin and McDonald really think that the piece by Bridget L. Kerrigan '92 is on par with George Orwell? Do they really think that the anonymously published Gen Ed 105 paper is "cleverly written, funny and sardonic?" ("The semicolon is the common thread that casts a shadow over their efforts to pave the way for crossing a future bridge over non-racist waters...
...economy growing 3% a year for 45 years quadruples. Not bad. But an economy growing 4 points faster, at 7%, grows 21-fold! This is, very roughly, the difference in the way the Japanese and U.S. economies have expanded since 1945. And it has nothing to do with IQ scores...
...good. In a study of 217 children from eight months to three years of age who had had at least one seizure, researchers at the University of Washington and the National Institutes of Health found that children who took phenobarbital daily for up to two years had significantly lower IQ scores than those who were given a placebo. Some difference was still apparent several months after they stopped taking the drug, but it is not known whether the impact will be permanent. To make matters worse, phenobarbital was not effective in suppressing seizures...