Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...here his source material, the mere listing of which takes 19 pages of eyestrain type, apparently overwhelms him. Confronted with so much unassimilated abundance, Carson opts to fly over it, presenting what he calls "a bird's-eye view of the folkways, conventions and inherited ideas governing civilized behavior which have been followed-or flouted-among the English-speaking inhabitants of the United States...
...anyone else could always cope with the current ragging. Every major candidate had been shouted down repeatedly, and the Labor Party temporarily barred from its rallies a BBC television crew that was filming a documentary on hecklers on the grounds that being on-camera only inspires more extreme behavior...
...students could find, however ephemerally, a commitment and a moral drive in opposing the university administration is evidence of a widespread, if latent, alienation," the report says. Furthermore, the committee found, Berkeley's brightest students were most active in the protests. "Whatever judgment is made of their behavior, Berkeley has to cherish this kind of student...
...absorbed $4.2 billion in American investment, more than any other country in Europe, has an "excellent" climate for foreign investment, especially American. The British particularly want investment that will bring in new technology and foster progress in Scotland and Northern Ireland. American corporations have an "exemplary" record of good behavior in the U.K., but their executives tend to irritate the British by not adapting to local customs. There is some fear of "U.S. dominance" of key industries such as autos, aircraft, computers...
...Breaking Behavior. Called cyclazocine, the drug had been tested by Dr. William P. Martin in the federal Ad diction Research Center at Lexington, Ky. There, 15 addicts taking oral doses of cyclazocine twice a day found that six times their usual narcotic dose was required to give them any euphoric effect at all. Cyclazocine, which is itself nonaddictive, apparently has no serious side effects after tolerance is built up, and substantially reduces the physiological impact of morphine-based narcotics, probably by preventing the morphine from reaching receptor sites in the nervous system...