Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They include the correlation between households where a parent is absent frequently, for a variety of reasons, and "many forms of emotional disorder--especially the anger, rebelliousness, low self-esteem, depression and anti-social behavior that characterizes drug users...
...Arafat had the opportunity last week to dissociate himself from the mafioso style of politics that has long characterized inner PLO circles. Instead, speaking to reporters in North Yemen, the guerrilla chieftain, in an unfounded and preposterous charge, blamed Israeli agents for the Sartawi assassination. Despite such consistently irresponsible behavior, a number of European governments--Greece and Austria among-them--have established close relationships with PLO representatives. The PLO, they argue, should be welcomed into the diplomatic community by both the United States and Israel as the legitimate voice for Palestinian national aspirations...
...Carter had been reelected, he might have been able to use his second honeymoon with Congress to get SALT II ratified, but he would have been under powerful pressure to begin SALT Ill with a tough proposal that had strings attached to Soviet behavior and was accompanied by major defense programs...
Taken aback by what one Moscow source described as Mitterrand's "un-French" behavior, the Soviets bitterly protested against the "arbitrary nature" of the expulsions. Though Moscow told a British diplomat and a newsman to leave, it took no immediate retaliatory action against France. Trade reprisals seemed improbable, since France already has a worsening trade deficit with the Soviet Union. Nor was it likely that Moscow would cancel imports of French machinery needed for the Soviet natural-gas pipeline project to Western Europe. The Soviets undoubtedly will find ways to make their displeasure felt, but experts do not expect...
Freeman concludes his book asserting that the case of Samoa shows that neither biological nor cultural determinism is unacceptable on its own and that both must be considered in accounting for human behavior. He advocates the currently popular "view of human evolution in which the genetic and exogenetic are distinct but interacting parts of a single system." Freeman seems to believe that the old nature-nurture debate is over, but he is unfortunately mistaken. The opinion that the genes dictate and determine all continues to be expressed in psychology, evolutionary biology, and anthropology...