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...tempo of American life." One major reason for this shift in attitudes, Flink thinks, is young Americans' sweeping indictment of the car for contributing to "environmental pollution, urban sprawl, the decay of the center city, the decimation of our remaining wilderness areas." He did not predict what will take the auto's place as a predominant American force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Week's Watch | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

...previously frozen increases will be allowed to rise in Phase II. Still, President Nixon said that he is confident that consumer prices will drop to an annual rate of 2% to 3% for the coming year-a figure that he holds would amount to victory over inflation. Economists generally predict that the overall rate of inflation in 1972 can be held to 3% or a bit more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHASE II: Holding Down Those Prices | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

Saturday's game against Massachusetts will pair Harvard with a powerful Redman squad that is undefeated this season. Harrison said that since Harvard's opponents have tried both slowdown and running tactics, it would be hard to predict the Redmen attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Five to Face Potent Foes | 12/17/1971 | See Source »

...technical competence to use it. The unequal distribution of technical and financial resources narrows down the potential users to the government and government-funded university research. (Large corporations may find the techniques useful but so far they have done little work in this area.) Project participants can thus predict who will use their results, and for what ends...

Author: By Marion B. Lennihan, | Title: Social Science for Social Control? | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...best. I.Q. tests measure "in- An undefinable quantity, "in- in this context is identified as the that I.Q. tests measure. I.Q. tests are because a correlation exists between a student's I.Q. score and his performance in our society. In short, I.Q. tests are designed to predict success. So to say, as Herrnstein says at great length, that people with high I.Q.'s succeed in America is to spout a tautology and say nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Herrnstein | 12/8/1971 | See Source »

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