Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stating that "ignorance, not knowledge, stimulates inappropriate behavior." Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci encouraged all Cambridge citizens to support family sex education...
...camera, using a four-letter word for a sex act. But Wilson had the last laugh: footage of Rather's outburst was aired on the show in 65 cities, with the mot bleu bleeped out. The anchor apologized in a letter: "That was inexcusable, rude and un-Christian behavior for which I am remorseful...
Equally and more immediately consequential is the impact of a Jackson candidacy upon the voting behavior of Blacks--especially working-class and lower-class Blacks who make up a disproportionate share of the "party of non-voters," to use Walter Dean Burnham's apt phrase. Nationally, some 41 percent of 17.6 million voting-age Afro-Americans are not registered (compared to 34 percent of voting-age whites) and in the South (whose electoral votes will be crucial in 1984) the situation is worse still. Voter apathy among Blacks is tantamount to political suicide in today's neo-conservative...
...behavior of the Syrians in the negotiations convinced U.S. diplomats that the Assad government was not interested in a fair compromise. Said a discouraged U.S. diplomat: "The Syrians are making demands designed, in effect, to steal the legitimacy of the Lebanese government." Their real aim, in the U.S. view, is to hasten Gemayel's demise and replace him with a government that Syria can control...
...caused in part by eating too much junk food. A lenient jury bought the line and produced a verdict of voluntary manslaughter rather than murder. Under California's determinant sentencing law, that judgment carried a maximum term of seven years and eight months. With time off for good behavior, that makes White eligible for parole from Soledad prison beginning next Jan. 6, after he will have served five years...