Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...view that crime is largely, or entirely, the by-product of poverty, racism, broken families and other social disturbances. By focusing narrowly on environmental conditions that help breed crime, the authors write, criminologists overlook traits that many offenders seem to share. Criminals tend to be young males who are muscular rather than thin, and who have lower-than-average IQs and impulsive, "now"-oriented personalities, which make planning or even thinking about the future difficult. While these factors do not cause crime, they say, "the evidence leaves no doubt" that constitutional traits correlate with criminal behavior...
Many of the book's assertions are open to debate, but the most likely to draw heavy fire are the freewheeling ruminations on body types and IQs. The authors cite studies showing that criminals tend to be more mesomorphic (muscular) and less ectomorphic (linear) than the general population. The authors think this finding points to a link between body type, temperament and crime. Other studies indicate that muscularity is associated with an extroverted, high-energy, domineering temperament, while an inhibited, restrained person who is likely to internalize the rules of society and steer clear of crime tends to be thin...
...Cathay scandal came at a particularly inauspicious time for the Taiwanese economy. After a muscular 10.9% growth rate in 1984, economic activity in the first half of this year rose less than 6%. Productivity has risen almost 9% annually over the past decade, but that has not been nearly enough to keep pace with the average 16% increase in wages. "From these figures, you can see we really are in danger," says one of Taiwan's leading economic policymakers...
...studying hard the rest of the month. I was dragged to the party by roommates, a few friends from the hall and a few women from upstairs. One of the women from upstairs began drinking heavily as soon as we arrived. She was tall and muscular and rowed crew. She came up to me and told me she could beat me at arm wrestling. I agreed. She then told me she could beat me up. I agreed with her again. Then she said she would demonstrate her strength by tearing apart my beer can, and she did. I couldn...
...slow with his schoolbooks. One of Treadup's best assets is the ability to immerse himself in % drudgery, a fate he prepared for as a farm boy in upstate New York and an oarsman for Syracuse, where he heard the call to Jesus. Superficially, Treadup is a model of muscular Christianity. But he is also built to carry a good deal of symbolic weight. "What is moving in his story," writes Hersey, "what may in the end be thought to redeem the obvious failure of his mission in China, is his lifelong struggle to subdue the greater but sicker saint...