Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actually, although she will only admit to 49 -- carries on a sunset flirtation with a fortyish Italian prince, Carlo Pontevecchio. Her sister-in-law Irma Shrewsbury, also a moneyed widow, is romanced by Charlie Hopeland, a conniving young lawyer. Emily has had cosmetic surgery, but her wardrobe and behavior remain staunchly conservative. Irma, who appears "mean, as if she unconsciously wanted revenge for what she had missed," abruptly turns into a grotesque, misapplying bright red lipstick and drinking old-fashioneds with catastrophic results...
Despite those benefits, computer supervision has a dark side that is becoming a major issue for workers, labor leaders and scholars. The ability to record so much information about an employee could tempt managers to snoop too deeply into personal behavior and invade privacy. Just as ominously, the pressure of being monitored every second is already producing undesirable side effects in some workers, notably high stress and low morale. Declares Karen Nussbaum, director of 9 to 5, a national group of workingwomen: "The potential for corporate abuse is staggering. It puts you under the gun in the short...
...currently fashionable to blame political ills on the media, a trend that threatens the First Amendment and wrongly shifts the onus from politicians to their chroniclers and frequent adversaries. However, Hillson is right in observing ruefully that the news media decides which candidates are viable and ignores the rest, behavior hardly consistent with democratic ideals...
During its intermittent, yearlong investigation, there were times when the commission seemed to be on a kind of surrealist mystery tour of sexual perversity, peeping at the most recondite forms of sexual behavior known -- though mostly unknown -- to society. The report details testimony about practices involving human excretions, asphyxiation and anilingus, along with even more arcane fetishes, such as collecting toenail clippings and sniffing sweat. The panel heard from a Houston police officer whose vice squad had confiscated and was storing some 27,000 "rubber goods." Many of the so- called victims described the harm that had befallen them after...
...disbelieving boy: "Say it ain't so, Joe." The conditions that impelled him and his teammates to take money from gamblers -- low pay, lack of security and a general feeling of involuntary servitude -- have long since been overturned. Free agency, binding arbitration and other Big Business behavior may have cost baseball its aura of boyishness, but these changes have also enriched players enough to insulate them...