Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort earlier this month to expel Israel from the United Nations because it is "not a peace-loving nation" should give pause for thought. Surely, Israel's international behavior even if unjust in Lebanon, does not rate as the most bellicose in the world. Perhaps dozens of countries "love peace" much less than Israel, yet the Arabs singled out the Jewish state. Had the expulsion issue come to a vote, judging from past patterns of U. N. voting on Israel-related issues the Arab League might well have received considerable worldwide support,. The voting records of France, Italy and other...
...they subjected him to an electroshock machine and screamed frenetically, "Clipped Prick!" Must recently opposition to Israel's statehood has become an unconvincing disguise, and many anti-Semites have switched to a new strategy--quite the rage in light of the Lebanon invasion--of sweepingly condemning Israel's political behavior...
...activities Spiegelman notes, for example, that press accounts of the nuclear freezer rally in New York last June focused on the trivial aspects of the gathering. "The mainstream broadcast media presented the huge rally in a relentlessly upbeat mood. Their unmodulated celebration of the rally's size and good behavior smothered and obliterated the urgency and terror that brought so many together...
...different pressures or temperatures, matter changes: water boils into steam, iron bars lose their magnetism, rock-hard metals melt into gooey paste. But as matter approaches these so-called critical points, its physical properties fluctuate so wildly that even the most powerful computers were unable to describe its behavior exactly...
Relying on a new organizational-mathematical tool with the formidable name of "renormalization group theory," Wilson in the early '70s was able to divide this seemingly insoluble problem into a number of smaller soluble ones. His esoteric work has far-ranging applications, from understanding the complex behavior of the atmosphere, which could help predict climate trends, to the workings of quarks, the elusive particles that are regarded as building blocks of matter...