Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggest that dining hall employees have to enforce a policy they don't support. Gong! The staff supported tightened restrictions because of the heavily increased workload, as well as the appallingly rude behavior of some of the interhouse violators...
...SADDAM'S BEHAVIOR...
...course, have long had histories of run-ins with the law, from tennis pro Jennifer Capriati with her marijuana arrest (the charges were later dropped) to baseball legend Pete Rose and his gambling travails. But Benedict and Yaeger describe an entrenched culture of cover-up and tolerance of criminal behavior in the NFL. And they devote nearly a chapter to the Vikings, listing 15 players entangled with police since Green was named the team's head coach...
Richard Dawkins is not usually an author you read when you want to feel good about humanity. The Oxford professor is best known for writing The Selfish Gene, a book that theorizes that people are genetically predisposed to self-serving, exploitative behavior. People, according to Dawkins, never act in terms of what is good for the group, but only in terms of what is good for themselves. In the process of natural selection, altruists are gradually selected out, while cheaters and exploiters are left to propagate the earth and pass their genes onto more cheaters and exploiters...
Emerson would say that institutional people run the risk of losing their originality. The purpose of the institution is to homogenize, and those who don't homogenize get marginalized. The cost of joining is submitting to other people's ideas, to conforming to a pattern of thought and behavior as predetermined as the one adopted by a cobbler's apprentice...