Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scratching, never enjoying the stereo view of hawks and owls and eagles. Like my hens cooped north of my barn, students raised in safe, nurturing environments expect little danger from outside let alone within, and when trouble erupts--the automatic feeder capsizes or a gunfight develops outside Holyoke Center--behavior becomes chaotic. Hens explode from hen house, students run in circles or gawk at shooters (although one dropped into the gutter, remembering a VES 107 digression on curbstone height versus body shape). Raptors find too many easy marks, too many undergraduates who never sense who follow them, who stalk them...
...year-old Fatima, who declined to provide Fifteen Minutes with her last name saying, "I don't really know how to spell it," also notes the antisocial behavior of the room's occupants. After sitting there for a few days, she still has not spoken to any college students...
...first resident of the building will be the Center for Genomics and Proteomics (CGP), which will focus on looking at whole cells in an attempt to better explain animal behavior and evolution...
Although it is admirable for the masters of Quincy House not to patrol the lives of their students, they must consider the kind of behavior which assassin encourages and decide whether that is truly in keeping with the spirit of the house...
...reduce excess capacity by cutting jobs," says Hendrikus Blommestein, acting head of the financial markets division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. Jean-Pierre Danthine, a professor at the University of Lausanne, suggests an additional motive for the at-home trend in corporate behavior: domestic mergers have the advantage of eliminating local competition. "If there's excess capacity, you can reap a lot of benefits by buying your competitor and closing him down," he says...