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...There is broad consensus that standardized test scores can be valuable as one factor, among several, in helping to assess candidates for admission.... The correlation between SAT scores and future academic success, however, is far from exact. It is not uncommon for individuals to outperform (or underperform) what the tests 'predict'--often by significant margins. In addition, the predictive power of the tests diminishes over time...
Even so, the results underscored a common criticism of the motives for buyouts. Richard Thevenet, vice president of Stern Stewart & Co., a Manhattan- based management efficiency consultant, put it bluntly: "Managers have an incentive to underperform before a buyout. Records of dramatic turnarounds after an LBO raise a troubling question. Why were these managers unable to accomplish these feats before the LBO? Shareholders bear all the costs, but not the rewards of the turnaround...
...committee that drafted the Kennedy-Johnson "war on poverty," then turned into one of its harshest crit ics. In his recently published attack on the program, Maximum Feasible Mis understanding, Moynihan criticized the Office of Economic Opportunity for antipoverty campaigns that have a tendency "to oversell and underperform...
...Former OEO Chief Sargent Shriver tended to "oversell and underperform," particularly in handling the Job Corps and community action...