Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official at the Kennedy School's Institute for the Study of Smoking Behavior and Policy said there have been few problems with enforcing the school's smoking...
...committee report did not address smoking in dormitory rooms and private offices. "Those problems are sticky ones because it is very hard to tell someone that they can't smoke in their private space, but they have to understand that their behavior affects other people because the ventilation is recirculated throughout the building," said Berman...
...member of a population to another is the product of two risks: (1) that an infected person will come into contact with someone who is not infected, and (2) that whatever they choose to do together is capable of transmitting the infectious agent. In practical terms, "low risk" behavior may become "high risk" as the infection becomes more common...
Even if the world were simple and AIDS was restricted to intravenous drug users and heterosexuals and their behavior were uniform and predictable, there would be no way to estimate accurately the time at which most cases of AIDS would result from heterosexual-to-heterosexual contact. Depending on the assumptions, heterosexual-to-heterosexual contact could account for the majority of AIDS cases in six years, 10 years, or never...
Hair-raising, unpredictable, frighteningly volatile -- just about every scary term imaginable was being used last week to describe the outlandish behavior of the stock market. Friday was the day to beat all days, the wildest and woolliest in the market's history. First the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks zoomed up 64 points in the space of five hours of trading, to a high of 2210. Then, just as suddenly, the Dow nose-dived, swinging down an amazing 115 points in 71 minutes. At times there literally were no buyers on the trading floor of the New York...