Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PART of the reason for such complaints is the nature of the demands. It is one thing to be outraged by the events of Forsythe, Ga., but to equate such behavior with the kind exhibited by The Crimson or by a history professor lecturing on slavery strains credulity...
...obsequiousness was comical: until confronted with taped evidence, Bush denied having said Reagan's supply-side nostrums represented "voodoo economics." Sometimes it was dispiriting: Bush changed his positions on issues like abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment in order to conform to Reagan's views. His most blatantly fawning behavior, like saluting Jerry Falwell ("America is in crying need of the moral vision you have brought to our political life") and praising William Loeb, the New Hampshire publisher who had belittled him, caused critics to wonder about Bush's "corruption of ambition." Even George Will, one of the conservatives whose...
...controlled chaos of Chicago's commodities pits, there is no time to reflect, only time to react, to buy when the market heads north, to sell the instant it flounders. Thus the busy traders never really stopped to wonder about the unusual behavior of several new colleagues who regularly lost thousands of dollars but kept coming back for more, day after day for two years. Tom Hicks, a trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, remembers one in particular named Peter Vogel: "He was real clean-cut -- wing tips, clipped hair, tie always knotted tightly. He didn't dress like...
...lenient -- sentences, Congress in 1984 created the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which issued a manual that greatly restricts judges' discretion in sentencing 40,000 federal defendants a year. The new system, for crimes committed since Nov. 1, 1987, also abolished parole and sharply limited probation and time off for good behavior...
...fact, the leaps that have been made have not been made by humanists, but by scientists. More and more behavior is being traced to biological causes. Above all, we need doctors and researchers to work in the hospitals and laboratories, to make observations and conduct experiments, to combat AIDS, ozone, cancer and attrition...