Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaders refused the request. After announcing their demands, the hijackers released 19 women and children via a yellow escape chute lowered from the forward door. One freed hostage, Irma Garza of Laredo, Texas, said that the terrorists had shot one man in the neck. Passengers were unnerved by the behavior of the hijackers. "They were hysterical, they were screaming," said Patricia Weber of Albuquerque...
...touched by the tragedy made an effort to come to terms with their feelings. At a Requiem Mass held in Liverpool's Roman Catholic cathedral, the Archbishop of Liverpool, Derek Worlock, summed up the feelings of shocked and puzzled citizens. "If it comes to responsible human conduct and moral behavior," he said, "the answer lies in ourselves." At a service held in a hangar at a Brussels military airport on Saturday, Belgian Prime Minister Martens paid his final respects to 25 of the riot victims. He spoke of the need "to put an , end to this mad race toward violence...
Fleming contends that top management must set moral standards and enforce them. "It really starts with the chief executive officers," he says. "They have to convince employees that they want ethical behavior." Other experts, however, doubt that employee actions can be controlled from the boardroom. Says Thomas Donaldson, a professor of philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago who has studied business ethics: "What we're seeing, as corporations get larger and larger, is a breakdown in the lines of accountability. We've created some superstructures in business that are wild- ly complex, and we haven't tamed them...
...basis of Kilson's argument is the assertion that "excessive ethnocentric behavior is dysfunctional to the egalitarian goals of parity for Blacks...in American society," as he wrote in his first of three letters...
...Skinner, the 81-year-old Pierce Professor of Psychology Emeritus, is known as a radical behaviorist who rebelled against the hypothetical approach to the science of behavior. His experimental approach led to his development of what came to be known as the "Skinner Box," a controlled environment that allowed him to record behavioral patterns...