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...authors make much of this difference, it may mean only that low-IQ criminals tend to get caught more often than their smarter colleagues. But for the authors, the important finding is that low IQ is associated with a particular kind of crime: impulsive acts with an immediate payoff, such as rapes and muggings. Though this finding may be interpreted in many ways, Wilson and Herrnstein suggest that the inability to think or plan past "short time horizons" may predispose a person toward crime...
...multitude of products, from miniature computer chips to the cordless Dustbuster vacuum cleaner. Says John Rittenhouse, executive vice president of the aerospace and defense division at RCA: "We're not banking on SDI reaching production. We're banking on the fallout to commercial and consumer areas for the payoff." Technology spawned by SDI could conceivably be used to build better communications equipment, air-traffic-control systems or industrial robots. High-speed computers developed for SDI could have thousands of practical uses...
...words, fantasy's healing power is in the spellbinding, not in the political message. By acting out the parts in the gloom of his darkened cell for his initially reluctant cell-mate, Molina saves his sanity and helps break the ice with Valentin--proof positive of fantasy's rich payoff for reality. As with Spielbergism, style subordinates content for our protagonist...
...schools which are financially fortunate enough that they can be discriminating; they can afford to refuse to conduct any research which is classified by the government or otherwise kept from free dissemination. These institutions realize that learning and secrecy cannot be reconciled irrespective of the (frequently substantial) dollar payoff of government contracts...
...Carbide's shares and is seeking regulatory approval to increase its stake to as much as 15%. While it may lack the financial clout to stage a successful takeover, GAF could force Union Carbide to hand over a treasured division, perhaps one of its specialty-chemicals businesses, as a payoff to end the hostile raid...