Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Asserting that "a total change in social behavior of the rulers of our countries" is vital to promoting peace in Central America, Carazo stressed that educating the lower classes would give the "majority the chance for progress and the possibility to improve...
...called Virgil, Texas. It also represents the first big-screen flowering of the decade's dominant hip sensibility. Like Letterman with his "Small-Town News" and "Stupid Pet Tricks," Byrne is fascinated by the seemingly banal. Like Lynch's Blue Velvet, True Stories rides the subterranean currents of bizarre behavior that bubble under Smalltown, U.S.A. "It's a strange world, isn't it?" the characters in Blue Velvet keep saying. Yes, Byrne would reply, strange and wondrous...
...enactment, writes Schlesinger, is "a revealing experience in which the participants' behavior and the decision process mirrors real-life policy making...
While both politicians and the press have been quick to remind New Yorkers that substance abuse was the tragedy's principal cause, they have chosen to focus on Ms. Steel's ostensible abuse of alcohol instead of the behavior of the driver who struck her down. After all, she used a fake i.d. to buy drinks at Dorian's Red Hand, the same bar that Jennifer Dawn Levin visited on the night of her gruesome murder two months...
...constitutional proscription against unreasonable search and seizure is not limited to only those who are suspected of criminal behavior," wrote the judge in a New Jersey drug-testing case. "Instead," he continued, "all searches...must satisfy constitutional reasonableness standards." In fact, it would seem more important that the protection the Constitution affords to those suspected of wrongdoing extend even more emphatically to those never even under a cloud of suspicion...