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...this section is well-written, informative and fair to the data. I do have several minor and two major quarrels with this part. First, the discussion of heredity is simplistic, omitting or underemphasizing crucial elements (e.g., the randomizing effect of I.Q. differences between mother and father, or the extensive overlap between groups with respect to the distribution of scores, which may be more meaningful and useful for the purposes of social policy than is the difference between averages). Second, the correlation between high I.Q. and success in this society says nothing about whether I.Q. measures an individual's overall "ability...
...mind and the imagination. Director O'Horgan's frenetic Broadway incarnation is rarely any of those things. It is, instead, a frequently breathless and occasionally stupendous son et lumière show, crowded with mechanical contrivances, and a headlong rush of happenings that, as designer Robin Wagner puts it, "overlap like arrows in flight...
...endless season that stretches from September well into May. After football completes its rounds of playoffs, bowl and all-star games in late January, hockey will keep skating right through the opening month of the baseball season. As last week's sport spectaculars proved, the games not only overlap; they tend to upstage one another...
...with Western, would have an excessively large share (22.7%) of the total national trunk airline market, yet would not gain "any significant cost reductions," as had been argued by American President George A. Spater. American and Western insist that their common routes in the Southwest are not a major overlap and that their combined size would not likely be greater than that of United, now the largest domestic carrier...
...introductory remarks, Anderson said, "There's potential dual overlap with the Administrative Board. It's a little unclear where a situation like this belongs. But no new complaints can be filed on the basis of what's brought forth during this hearing...