Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctors do not agree on a definition of the disease. The extreme cases are obvious. A person in the grip of alcoholism blacks out from drinking too much, suffers memory loss, and wakes up trembling with craving for another drink. But most cases show fewer dramatic symptoms. Also, the behavior of alcoholics fluctuates wildly. Some drink heavily every day, while others can stop for brief periods, only to go off on binges. This past year the American Psychiatric Association settled on three basic criteria to define and diagnose alcoholism: physiological symptoms, such as hand tremors and blackouts; psychological difficulties, which...
...lived at home until her mother's death in 1979. She was a drug user and in 1983 lost her job because of poor attendance. She lived off and on with her sisters but fought with them, and was kicked out of a Newark shelter because of disruptive behavior...
...circumspect about enforcing the law. Illegality is important to prevent the predictably vast increase in use that would occur if you could get a pack of Acapulco Gold out of the machine that now gives you Kools. And non-prosecution is important because you don't persecute people for behavior that you find impossible to argue is morally wrong...
...already urgent fears become particularly urgent in light of Saybrook College's tradition of lewd behavior at the Game. This year, however, there will be no such activities permitted under any circumstances. Our boys are prepared to spontaneously arrest any Saybrookers inproperly or incompletely clad during the course of the Game. We have stationed numerous undercover agents around the clusters of Saybrook students, and these folks are prepared to confiscate any discarded garments for use as evidence in a Court...
...perfectly clear that Ginsburg should never have had to answer questions about what he smoked and when. True, drugs are illegal, and it can be argued that drug use as a law professor reveals a basic contempt for law. But many, many activities and forms of behavior that take place in private are technically illegal, and if a nominee can be forced to disclose whether he has ever gotten high, there is no limit to how far his privacy can be invaded...