Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professor of child psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. The results of his studies were almost too orderly, too pat, and the work was completed with remarkable speed. The doubts came to a head in 1983 when Breuning's supervisor, Robert Sprague, then director of the Institute for Child Behavior and Development at the University of Illinois, reported his suspicions of his young colleague's methods to the National Institute of Mental Health...
...same time, Halliwell, seven years Orton's elder and a would-be writer or artist himself, saw his companion's fortune grow while he languished in obscurity. Even sexually Halliwell was made to feel inferior; Orton's behavior loudly proclaimed his preference for toiletstall encounters over Halliwell's charms. So on August 9, 1967 Halliwell, aged 41, beat Orton, aged 34, to death with a hammer. He then swallowed 22 Nembutals and died...
...murkiness of insider-trading regulations is an example of why some leading moralists worry about an excessively legalistic approach to defining ) ethical behavior. "Take corruption on Wall Street," says Donald Shriver, president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City. "There are points where we think dishonesty is wrong even if it is legal...
...spate of post-Watergate reform legislation has been undermined by unintended consequences. Campaign-spending laws spawned a proliferation of political-action committees. Strictures against lobbying by former Government officials have failed to halt revolving-door Reaganism. The very act of drawing statutory limits almost seems to guarantee that most behavior will cluster just this side of legality. As Education Secretary William Bennett puts it, "What I worry about is a legislator who says we have an ethics crisis, let's do something about...
...future, more enlightened Supreme Court will finally take state governments out of the business of killing their citizens. Until then, the U.S. will continue to be among the few Western industrialized nations retaining the ultimate obscenity, the death penalty. The decision leaves us aligned with such paragons of civilized behavior as the Soviet Union, Iran and Libya...