Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administration's behavior bears a strong resemblance to the Spanish Inquisition," said Nancy R. Page, a second-year Law student who is organizing a group response to the letter. "It's like McCarthy--there has been no formal notice of hearings, no charges, yet the Ad Board is going on a fishing trip for facts. It's a violation of procedural due process," Page added...
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...
...binge of communal gambling was certain to provoke sober afterthoughts, and did. Said Monsignor Joseph A. Dunne of New York City, president of the National Council on Compulsive Gambling: "The state approved drinking but it doesn't promote it. Yet the state is promoting, advocating and pushing risk-taking behavior like gambling." Some critics complained that in using games of chance to raise revenue, states mainly exploit poorer people, whose tight financial straits tempt them to give in to dreams of hitting it big. Said Sociologist Eric Hirsch of Columbia University: "It's the American dream to get rich quickly...
...Guinnesses are really too kind to mother and aunties with the forgiving explanation of their power-groupie behavior as "a need to link personal love to a general cause." As adolescents, Unity and her younger sister Jessica turned their rooms into political statements. Unity covered her walls with swastikas and a portrait of Hitler. Jessica decorated hers with hammers and sickles. They shouted party slogans at each other like cheerleaders for opposing teams. When the going got really hot, they wound up in a pillow fight. Jessica moved to the U.S. and stuck with the Communist Party until...
...will squire you through your first year at the College. Although you're never quite sure what he's doing, and you may see him less than you see President Bok, you can rest assured that Moses and his staff are monitoring your activity to analyze freshman behavior, or if you're engaged in conduct unbecoming a Harvard student, probing your record to determine disciplinary action. Moses' office sits right behind Hurlbut, so Union dormsters beware...