Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This context helps explain why the MDC reacted with such seemingly unprovoked ire to the prospect of students celebrating on the banks of the Charles. What is a traditional celebration in the city now seems terrifying. There has been no increase in unruly behavior, no upturn in arrests. There has been a change in perception. That change has come about because of a new conception of what public events should be like. It is a pattern which can be traced across the country...
...State Appeals Court ruled on September 17 that the City of Cambridge may not promote 20 police officers to the rank of sergeant--because of behavior that a Harvard professor wouldn't think twice about...
...past months the scrutiny of candidates' past and personal lives have dominated the Democratic political campaigns making the public's view of candidate's personal behavior all the more important. Last spring former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart withdrew from the campaign due to reports that he spent the night with a woman not his wife. And last week Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden left the race after it was revealed that he had plagiarized in his speeches...
...nine-page study noted that "abusive behavior toward all women is not only passively accepted and condoned but encouraged." In the predominantly male environment, the committee reported, the servicewomen have few recreational facilities where they can avoid "being humiliated and feeling denigrated as human beings...
...rest of America's college elite in the Pan Am Games. Some cry, "Whence cometh the next John McEnroe?" But others are pleased to remember that, if only by the accident of his father's army station, he cometh from Germany. McEnroe broke his old record for ugly behavior at the Open, earning $17,500 in fines and a two-month suspension. Shortly after, Czechoslovakia's Hana Mandlikova had a minor Mac attack worth $500. Asked what language Mandlikova chose to curse in, British Supervisor of Women Georgina Clark expressed more than the truth when she replied, "American...