Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although psychiatrists are not sure why males are more likely to commit suicide, Jacobs said in a telephone interview, yesterday, "Men don't go for help. They tend to use more violent methods, and they tend to generally get involved with more violent behavior than women...
...tabooization." High officials are openly criticized, including government ministers and regional party first secretaries, some of whom are members of the Central Committee. This criticism is not always followed by dismissals, as would have happened in the past, which means that criticism now is a standard for behavior and not a tool of punishment. There have been cases when sycophantic bosses, to curry favor, punished underlings who objected to some aspect of the campaign for restructuring our economy -- and those bosses were in turn severely chastised for attempting to silence dissent...
...onslaught of protest against Amerika before the show is even finished is an attempt at "precensorship of ideas." The movie, he insists, is not an anti-Soviet tract but a rumination on what it means to be American: "I think it can make people ask some questions about their behavior as citizens. It might even make them think about the responsibility part of freedom." Wrye, who describes himself as a Kennedy Democrat, says he "wasn't remotely interested in doing something anti-Soviet" and charges that opponents of the movie have a double standard. "It's okay...
From January 1977 to November 1980, Greenfeld records what goes on in his house in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Both sons enter their teens, and Karl, who gets there first, begins outraging his father with typical adolescent behavior. After one acrimonious argument, the author manages a desperate joke: "This family could be worse. Noah could be normal." But Noah is not. "It is no fun," Greenfeld notes, "to have him pull hair right out of your scalp and then put it in his mouth and swallow it." And Noah is growing physically, if not mentally. Someday soon the parents will...
...after his promotion, O'Donnell was suddenly missing from Thompson offices last week. He had been abruptly fired after presenting a plan to take the company private and oust Johnston as boss, according to members of the J.W.T. board of directors. The directors, who decided that O'Donnell's behavior was grossly inappropriate, deliberated for about an hour before giving Johnston the go-ahead to sack...