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...ideological underpinning of this drive is Nixon's conviction that "economic power will be the key to other kinds of power"-and that the U.S. has been letting this key slip out of its hands. Speaking to a group of editors in Kansas City last year, Nixon said that "five great economic superpowers-the U.S., Western Europe, the Soviet Union, Mainland China and, of course, Japan" will determine "the future of the world in the last third of this century." He added that American world leadership "can only be maintained if the U.S. maintains its pre-eminent position...
...doing favors for the kids in his neighborhood. He had a "personal payroll" for boys who wanted to carry equipment out to the playing fields, and at every football game he had 12 of them along as guests. Afterwards, he would introduce them to the players, and then quietly slip away...
...botany and writing on genetics. The crucial point is that propositions about inherited intelligence (applicable to individuals within all groups) are one thing, while conclusions about differentials in average intelligence among racial groups are quite another. The latter do not follow the former, yet it is easy to slip into the error that they do. Professor Herrnstein does not explicitly draw the second conclusion, and there is even a small sentence disclaiming it. Yet the whole setting of the article including its slanted editorial introduction leaves an overall impression that such a conclusion is suggested...
...Siegel leans the movie on a steep right-wing bias. Harry is more than a policeman, he is an avenging god. He has the strength and endurance of ten because his heart is pure law-and-order. Harry succeeds in tracking down the killer, only to see him slip away under the cloak of snivelling libertarianism. The district attorney, backed by an intellectual judge from Berkeley, informs Harry that the criminal's rights were violated. This inverted bit of deus ex machina gives Scorpio time to terrorize a busload of children and sends Harry off again on the righteous pursuit...
...botany and writing on genetics. The crucial point is that propositions about inherited intelligence (applicable to individuals within all groups) are one thing, while conclusions about differentials in average intelligence among racial groups are quite another. The latter do not follow from the former, yet it is easy to slip into the error that they do. Professor Herrnstein does not explicitly draw the second conclusion, and there is even a small sentence disclaiming it. Yet the whole setting of the article including its slanted editorial introduction leaves an overall impression that such a conclusion is suggested...