Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...produced a schism as deep as any in the 32-year history of the Arab League. Also, responding to the constant criticism of his initiatives by Moscow, Sadat summarily closed down a number of Soviet consulates and cultural offices. That reduced the Communist presence in Egypt to its lowest level since the days of King Farouk...
Spiegel's test: hold the head level and roll the eyes upward as far as possible. Then, as the eyelids are lowered slowly, have someone check the amount of white space that shows under the corneas. The greater the white space, the greater the capacity to be hypnotized...
...measured in standard deviations along such a curve. In the tests, about 68% score between 85 and 115; less than 3% score below 70-or above 130. Because scores fluctuate widely in the high IQ range, researchers have scrapped the designation genius (once defined as 140 level or above). Now they prefer more subtle terms like superior and very superior. Because terminology differs from one test to another, anyone with a 120 score on the Wechsler test is designated superior, while the same score rates only above average on the Otis-Lennon...
...with the power of position behind him emerges as victor. All the justness of the rebel family Percy's cause fails to overcome the king's opposing will; all the willfullness of the prodigal prince falls before the demands of his role as future king. At its most immediate level, the theme of the play Henry IV (part 1) is purely political: its art is a lesson in the practice of politics...
Ptashne, now on a sabbatical leave of a year in Cambridge, England, has been studying the same mechanism of gene control on a model bacterial virus. Ptashne is studying , at a molecular level, "how various control proteins act to control the expression of genes, "Robert T. Sauer, an assistant in Ptashne's laboratory, said yesterday...