Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week, 14 months after his verbal confrontation with Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 and James Q. Wilson, Rosovsky again took the floor to defend affirmative action at Harvard. This time, however, his point was some what different. No longer was aggressive enforcement of affirmative action guidelines the policy of the land, the dean's annual report noted. The Justice Department of the Reagan Administration had retrenched significantly from the Carter Administration's vigorous enforcement of policies that often amounted to "race and sex-based quotas...
...work with precocious math students of both sexes - and Camilla Benbow had tested 10,000 talented seventh-and eighth-graders between 1972 and 1979. Using the Scholastic Aptitude Test, in which math questions are meant to measure ability rather than knowledge, they discovered distinct sex differences. While the verbal abilities of the males and females hardly differed, twice as many boys as girls scored over 500 (on a scale of 200 to 800) on mathematical ability; at the 700 level, the ratio was 14 to 1. The conclusion: males have inherently superior mathematical reasoning ability...
...come when I really believe what I'm saying. You get emotional, irrational." "You need arrogance," adds Kidd, a visiting New Zealander known for his sly bluntness. "You've got to be cocky to throw all this b.s. around." One veteran of the circuit admits that the verbal showboating can engender a vague mistrust of fellow debaters offstage, at parties and in dorm rooms...
...addition to his verbal expressions Williams is well known as a prolific writer, having churned out more than 200 papers sharing "his profound insights of what is going on in insects." Milkman remarked...
...lowly intern who spent most of the summer writing about developed' verbal and mathematical abilities and the Standard Error of Measurement, I soon stopped trying to explain that I wasn't anywhere near the tests, and that I didn't work for ETS at all. "You see, the College Board, which is in New York, owns the tests, and it has a contract with the guys in Princeton, who own the questions on the tests...