Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Koop last spring asked the Institute for the Study of Smoking Behavior and Policy at the K-School to examine the impact of smoking regulations in public and in the workplace, said John M. Pinney, executive director of the institute...
Ironically, the offense that Boesky was charged with committing is anything but clear cut. Insider trading is a crime that goes virtually undescribed in U.S. securities statutes, although it is roughly defined in court cases as the illicit profiting from information about private corporate behavior before that knowledge has reached the public domain. It has been compared to playing poker with marked cards. But deciding when the cards have been improperly marked -- and, above all, proving it -- is no mean feat, since rumor, innuendo and split-second inference are the stuff of ordinary stock trading...
...that this passionate and meticulous Australian filmmaker was carried away by his own obsession. From his first success (Picnic at Hanging Rock) to his last (Witness), Weir has been at pains to dislocate rationality, placing representatives of Western "civilization" in primitive contexts, where their normal habits of mind and behavior can only mislead them. Doubtless he saw Allie as a bracing variant on his favorite sort of central figure. Perhaps Weir saw in this sacred monster the makings of dark comedy; Allie is a compendium of the cliches of liberaloid social criticism, rich in potential self-parody. For besides creating...
Gambino. Traditionalists expect Thomas Gambino, 57, son of former Boss Carlo Gambino, the Mafia's last true godfather (he died of natural causes in 1976) to reclaim his family's leadership. A low-profile capo, or captain, Gambino avoids the flamboyant dress and behavior that so quickly drew attention to current Boss John Gotti. Gambino has been making good money from the rackets, and some experts think he may prefer to remain a contented capo rather than become the boss...
Some theorists put part of the blame for the unemployment problem on the behavior of black youths. Glenn Loury, a political economist at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, notes, "The characteristics, the attitudes, history, criminal-arrest records and other qualities of the young men themselves make them difficult to employ." Elijah Anderson, professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of A Place on the Corner, a 1978 study of the lost men of the ghetto, believes that out of a misplaced sense of pride, many black youths are unwilling to accept the low- paying, low-prestige...