Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack of it. The record indicates that Lyndon Johnson was every inch the gentlemanly sympathizer during those tense moments in Dallas and later in Washington. Jackie wrote several letters to Johnson after the assassination, reported the Chicago Daily News, that "contradict the account of Mr. John son's behavior toward the grief-stricken widow." In addition, Johnson's statement to the Warren Commission shows his sensitive concern for Jackie at a time when he still was not sure about his own safety or the country...
While the prediction of human behavior will never become an exact science, it should be noted that in the past seven national elections, the Gallup poll has, on the average, been right within 2 percentage points of absolute accuracy, and has never been farther off the mark than 2.8 percentage points...
...judgment, handed down by Chief Magistrate Nina I. Isakova, was a compromise. She agreed with the prosecution that Gilmour should pay 1,000 rubles for his freedom, sentenced Wortham to three years in a Soviet labor camp - with the probability of being released after 18 months of good behavior. In Moscow, the U.S. embassy called the sentence "harsh," as perhaps it was by American standards. For Russia, however, it seemed light indeed...
...stunned Smole countered this dastardly democratic behavior with an old Western parliamentary trick of his own. In a denouement without precedent in the Communist world, he and his executive council resigned-on the grounds that they had lost a no-confidence vote. The Parliament hastily convened to ask Smole & Co. to stay on as a caretaker government until a new one could be elected-when and how, no one quite knew. Smole himself set to work lobbying like any Western politician for enough support to get the bill passed on a second try. The shudder from such a convulsive exercise...
...evaluation programs that accompanied the demonstration projects funded by the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, established in 1961. As few programs in the history of American government, this one set out consciously and openly to test a set of hypotheses about the nature of deviant behavior in slum neighborhoods. It was a physiocrat's dream and attracted great attention in the press and in university circles...