Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turmoil in Scientology began to intensify with Armstrong's scrutiny of Hubbard's private papers. "I went from being a devotee to realizing I was the victim of a con game," he says. Archivist Armstrong concluded in his court statement that Scientology is "behavior therapy masquerading as a 'church' and making a mockery of honest religious practices." His wife Jocelyn, also a former leader in the church, agrees. She declares, "Most Scientologists simply have no idea of what goes on or how the church is really...
...keep their money in Britain. As soon as she arrived from the airport, Thatcher met with a team of Treasury officials at her Downing Street office. Tired as she was, the Prime Minister was expected to apply another brisk dose of resolution to the pound's neurotic behavior. As her Treasury aides pointed out, inflation in Britain has fallen in the last year from 12% to about 6%. Government budget deficits have been brought under control, the trade balance is in healthy surplus, and unit labor costs are rising by a modest 5½% a year. Britain, said Tory...
...first double designate in four decades. Back on the arm of her longtime beau Mikhail Baryshnikov, 34, Lange finds that her most challenging current role is warding off rumors that she has become a temperamental star. "I wish all the people so up in arms and offended by my behavior had met Frances," says Lange. "She tore people to pieces. I'm like a lamb compared with...
...schools find, as some do, that children frequently enter not knowing some of the basic rules of living together. For all their differences, today's scofflaws are of a piece as a symptom of elementary social demoralization-the loss by individuals of the capacity to govern their own behavior in the interest of others...
...would like to see Harvard not merely claim to influence South Africa as a stockholder of these companies; but rather have the clear appearance of standing on the moral side of this issue. We, the public, should not depend on Harvard, or on any institution, to push for good behavior from inside corporations, out of our sight. That satisfies no intelligent citizen of a democracy...