Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normal behavior to murder, then murder should be legal. If it is insane behavior to murder, then everyone who murders will go free on the insanity defense. I am very excited about this latest revelation, and have been enthusiastically preparing a victim list for after graduation when hope to have more time...
...this well-documented and instantly recognizable personality type can be produced chemically is not something we as a nation can afford to ignore or abandon. I grant that to the naturally relaxed, amiable, motivated person, excessive marijuana use can zap desirable qualities into a mush of lethargy and reclusive behavior. This is not to say, however, that it would be beneficial to eliminate marijuana use in our society. For people who are naturally bellicose, annoying, pretentious or disruptive, pot is an effective neutralizer that, without hindering the individual from leading a relatively fulfulling and happy life, can successfully integrate abrasive...
...probation in fewer circumstances, mostly for the first-time offender who has committed a nonviolent crime. They also abolish the parole system for federal prisoners, as Congress has mandated, so that a five-year term will mean just that, minus no more than 54 days a year for good behavior. The commission estimates its tougher penalties will cause the federal prison population to grow by an extra 10% over the next decade. That could have an unimaginable effect on a federal prison like the one at Terminal Island in California, which has 1,039 inmates caged in a facility designed...
...brief: Dr. Tom More, a psychologist/jailbird on parole for selling drugs, stumbles across a scheme to improve behavior patterns in Feliciana parish. His colleagues have spiked the water-supply with "molar sodium 24," a chemical substance that causes women to lose their sexual inhibitions (they present themselves rearward like primates), heightens children's school performances (verbal and mathematical scores rocket), and even helps to hone More's wife's tournament Bridge game: "This lady knows where the cards are. I don't know how she knows but she knows. I don't think she knows she knows either...
BUETTNER-JANUSCH'S STORY contains many Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde elements. His behavior changed drastically according to whom he was with, swinging unexpectedly from charming to spiteful and back again...