Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...below in a courtyard. Somehow he managed to end up with King's blood smeared over his shirt. Early the next morning, Jackson turned up 500 miles away on television in Chicago still wearing the bloodied shirt and implying he had held the dying King in his arms. His behavior horrified King's lieutenants, who viewed it as profound opportunism. Coretta King could barely conceal her disgust, and for years she would not even speak to Jackson...
These days he pounds away at American business. Corporate behavior must change, declares Jackson. "They're getting slave labor abroad," he says, "at the expense of jobs here." He urges federal penalties and incentives to force corporations to stop. Audiences like the argument. So effective is Jackson with America's workers that organized labor, long hostile to Jackson, is beside itself. His bravado raises a tough question: How much does Jackson really know? He has no ready information supply, but rather sucks up ideas and facts as he goes along. Jackson's grasp of voters' emotions is uncanny and exceeds...
...involve greater American recourse to that much maligned body the United Nations. The advantage of the U.N., explains Gary Sick, an Iran expert and former Middle East adviser to the Carter Administration, is that it allows other Arab nations to join publicly in an effort to moderate Iran's behavior. At the moment, many Arab states feel they cannot back the U.S. openly in any diplomatic enterprise because of Washington's strong support of Israel. The U.N., says Sick, at least offers a forum for low-profile and private discussion of the issue...
...such unusual behavior? Because, as the credits pass by, the camera wanders into a Tokyo park, and focuses on a young mother breast-feeding her baby. The camera comes closer and closer, finally fixing on the mother's breast and baby's mouth. I, never a credit-watcher, stood up to leave. But no one would...
...Behavior...