Word: behavior
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bullies Get the Boot I was surprised by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "No Jerks Allowed" [April 2]. Cullen said "beastly bosses have shaved months off my life" and then defended them as being "some of the most gifted people I've known," as if that excuses their behavior. It is people like Cullen who create an atmosphere of acceptance for these cretins. There is no justification for jerks in the workplace. Give me an office full of smiley faces anytime. Suzy Stephens, Hampton Cove, Alabama...
...Arab. There was the original sin; messing about in lightly armed little boats in a waterway contested by Iran - a bit like poking a mad dog in the eye without being prepared to clobber it with a big stick if it bites. There has been the miserable, cringe-making behavior of the sailors and marines when in captivity. (As Max Hastings, distinguished military historian and journalist, said in the Daily Mail: Yes, the 15 had a very unpleasant and frightening ordeal, but if they were not ready for such a risk they should have worked at Tesco rather than...
...there's one thing health experts know, it's that you don't influence behavior by telling people what to do. You do it by exposing them to enough cases of people behaving well that it creates a new norm. What made the designated-driver concept catch on in the 1980s was partly that Harvard and the ad agencies it worked with persuaded TV networks to slip the idea into their shows. There's a reason a designated-driver poster appeared in the bar on Cheers, and it's not because it made the jokes funnier...
...been told that he is unwelcome at the Advocate building because of inappropriate behavior at Advocate social events,” Greg R. Scruggs ’07, the president of the Advocate, wrote in an e-mailed statement. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Committee consulted CCL as well as “a select group of undergraduate students.” But it also notes that “the students with whom it consulted disagree” with the recommendation to hold student organization leaders accountable for members’ behavior at group events...