Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could not engage in political discussions until her ambassadorial duties formally end on March 31. "I'm not denying it," she said of her switch in allegiance. "I've been making it fairly clear that I had to think seriously about bringing my formal registration into line with my behavior and my views...
...principal augury out of the Kremlin last week was not one of change, certainly not change in the sense of sweeping internal reform and more accommodating patterns of behavior abroad. Quite the contrary, everything that Gorbachev has said--and everything that can be read between the lines --suggests that his accession heralds not change but continuity in the substance of Soviet policy, particularly foreign policy...
Santilli cities many instances of what he feels was unethical behavior by leading institutions-all of it directed against research which raised questions about the strict validity of Einsteinian relativity. One example was the year and one half delay in publication of a research paper submitted to the journal of the American Physical Society-which normally publishes papers in a matter of weeks-while information on the paper was leaked to competing researchers so a rebuttal could be published soon after its release. Also mentioned were the categorical rejection of 13 grant proposals to the National Science Foundation submitted under...
...Black students at Harvard with ethnocentric identities do not have a very good grasp of their own behavior. At the root of such behavior is an emotional preference (and for a few an intellectual preference as well) for certain parochial moorings--which might be race-linked for Black students, religious-linked for Jewish and Mormon students, language-linked and nationality-linked for Hispanic students, etc, etc. I did not say in my February 25 letter that as such parochial preferences were inferior to cosmopolitan ones, and if the quintet from the Black Students Association (Anthony Ball--Kenneth Johnson--Darryl Parsons...
When University of Illinois Astrophysicist Larry Smarr discovered that the computers on campus were too small to simulate the behavior of quasars, those mysterious and distant starlike objects, he began casting around for a machine that could do the job. But Smarr soon realized that most of the hundred or so supercomputers powerful enough to serve his needs were either in the hands of private industry or tied up doing work for the Department of Defense. He finally had to use an American-made Cray 1 at West Germany's Max Planck Institut. "The Germans were extremely gracious," he says...