Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minnesotans, there have been no simple answers. In recent years, a better understanding of lupine behavior has resulted in a more sympathetic public image of the wolf. Wildlife biologists see them not as lawless, marauding killers, but as highly intelligent social creatures that are monogamous, dote on their young and howl complex messages. Still, in Minnesota's North Country, Canis lupus remains the Big Bad Wolf. Even after the Department of the Interior placed the Eastern timber wolf on the endangered species list in 1973, poaching continued at the rate of about 250 animals a year. Farmers complained...
...vandals had just burned the administration building to the ground. The tough new principal changed all that. He painted the school, put in an alarm system, provided enough lunch benches for students to eat sitting down and bought some trash cans. He made each teacher responsible for the behavior of 120 students, and gang leaders were bluntly told who was boss. Result: student suspensions are down by 80%, vandalism has dropped, and teachers want to work at Jefferson...
Reports from major school districts show that such basic steps as assessing stiffer penalties for students caught with weapons, setting tough codes of behavior and working to improve community relations have made discipline less of a problem. Says Massachusetts Commissioner of Education John Lawson: "The protest period of the '70s permitted students to drop discipline standards collectively, but that trend started to reverse three years ago." In Boston, physical assaults on school employees have dropped by 70% in the past 2½ years; robberies declined from 331 in the 1981-82 school year to 120 last year. In Jacksonville...
...radio talk, the President characterized many schools as "filled with rude, unruly behavior and even violence." But the Government report insisted that measures to tighten discipline "do not require massive spending, only motivation and leadership." School supervisors answer that money is essential for developing programs to give students extra help. California, for example, runs 439 schools, at an annual cost of about $200 million, at which troubled youngsters are given counseling and special attention...
...girth and his group are emblematic of all the excesses of emotion and behavior that the gilded age has up to now permitted all of the Gloria N. 's passengers to indulge. In fact, the point Federico Fellini wants to make in the liveliest, funniest and most assured movie he has directed in years is that the time for these absurdities is over. From Sarajevo onward, he is saying, the only follies grand enough to impose themselves on the world's consciousness will be political, and far more menacing than these little cultural lunacies...