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Usually such rewards go to the soft-handed-like stock market jobbers, suave promoters of semi-useless gadgets-or to some superjock adept at little boys' games. So when a worker can achieve semimillion-aire status by his skill and sweat, I say cheers...
Lack of depth on an offensive line wiped but by graduation may render all the offensive firepower useless. The defensive backfield has everybody returning from last year, but judging from last year's pass coverage that may be dubious asset...
Jencks is also a believers in the "so-what theory of genetic superiority, first popularized by Noam Chomsky. That is, he believes the whole argument about which race is more "intelligent" is a useless and inconsequential debate. "The importance of genetic differences between races is political rather than scientific. As of 1972, white people still ran the world. Those who have power always prefer to believe that they 'deserve' it, rather than thinking they have won it by venality, cunning, or historical accidents. Some whites apparently feel that if the average white is slightly more adept at certain kinds...
...dentifrices, hearing aids, detergents, tires and cough remedies. Most of it has been placed in the FTC's eleven region al offices, where consumer groups can examine it. Much of the "documentation," however, is either so vague or couched in such technical gobbledygook that it is all but useless in helping consumers to reach informed buying decisions...
According to Bowyer, Kennedy Corporation officials had planned to use piles now supporting MBTA buildings for the related structures. In May, however, soil engineers working with architect I.M. Pei found the old piles to be useless and new piles prohibitively expensive. Consequently, Bowyer said, related structures aside from a restaurant and souvenir shop would be a 'second-stage' project, when more money will be available...