Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telephoned Shamir in Jerusalem and told him of receiving reports that the Lebanese militiamen were "massacring" people in the Palestinian camps. Last week, however, Shamir testified that Zipori had not spoken to him of a "massacre" or of "slaughter," but had used the Hebrew word histolelut, which means wild behavior. Shamir further testified that, a short time after receiving Zipori's call, he held a previously scheduled meeting with Sharon, top Israeli intelligence officials and U.S. Special Envoy Morris Draper without bothering to mention Zipori's call to any of them. How could he have failed to share...
Dictators' pastimes are far more striking because they often contrast with the rulers' normal behavior. Nero, no fiddler incidentally, did play the lyre and sing to vast, appreciative audiences. Hitler was a painter who started out doing postcard-size works of art and, as his career improved, worked his way up to large water-colors of wartime destruction: rubble, crumbled walls, caved-in roofs. Eventually he created his own subjects, a rare chance for an artist. According to his lackey, the featherbrained Putzi Hanfstaengl, Hitler also adored whistling. His best numbers were Harvard fight songs, which Putzi...
...down. At a Thursday news conference held for that purpose, Secretary of State Shultz asserted that "signals are fine" and the U.S. appreciated the "great courtesy" that Andropov had shown toward himself and Bush, but "the thing we are really looking for . . . is the substance of change in behavior." As Shultz noted, no sooner had Brezhnev been laid to rest than "it was as though someone threw a switch and suddenly martial music and a long march-by of troops. That was mood music too, I thought...
Paul R. Lawrence, Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Business School, who headed one of the community groups opposing construction of the Fibrary in the Square, said yesterday that he had no regrets about the decision...
...trade is an instrument for gaining leverage over Soviet behavior, the U.S. has yet to figure out how to use it. One school says: Trade with the Soviets a lot-get them to drink our soda pop, wear our blue jeans, buy our ball bearings and computers and grain-and they'll become more like us and depend more on us. That view is held by some diehard advocates of détente and prominent American businessmen, such as Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum and Donald Kendall of Pepsico. The other school says: Don't trade with them...