Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scorsese has told his tale at a pace just a little fizzier than the merely lifelike, encouraged his cameraman Michael Ballhaus to light it one notch brighter than reality, one notch darker than fantasy. His splendid actors never pause to explain their strange behavior. The result is a delirious and challeng- ing comedy, a postmodern Ulysses in Nighttown...
...contrast with these affirmative measures, merely selling Harvard's stock in all American companies doing business in South Africa would be a misguided response that we would eventually regret. In particular cases, of course, we may disagree so deeply with a firm's behavior that we no longer wish to be associated with it through stock ownership. As previously mentioned, we have recently sold the stock of two firms that have been intransigent in responding to our inquiries about their employment practices. (We sold the shares of another firm earlier this year on similar grounds.) We are also about...
Some doctors have made careers out of looking into the minds of criminals, but a team of Harvard-affiliated doctors have taken this practice to new heights. In an attempt to learn more about brain abnormalities and violent behavior, the doctors are dissecting and analyzing the brain of a suspected mass murderer who took his own life. The doctors are specifically attempting to find a tumor that may be connected with psychotic tendencies...
...year in Washington on the subject of black-on-black violence: "They believe they have nothing to lose. Even if they should lose their own lives, they feel they will not have lost very much. Besides, why should they be good, they ask. There is no reward for good behavior." Paul Hubbard, vice president of an independent urban planning agency called New Detroit Inc., is struck by the sense of detachment and despair among violent young blacks. "They have a value system much different from ours, and they don't have a reason for adopting our value system because...
Some doctors have made careers out of looking into the minds of criminals, but a team of Harvard-affiliated doctors have taken this practice to new heights. In an attempt to learn more about brain abnormalities and violent behavior, the doctors are dissecting and analyzing the brain of a suspected mass murderer who took his own life. The doctors are specifically attempting to find a tumor that may be connected with psychotic tendencies...