Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...primary form [of racism] at any institute of higher learning...is in unconscious behavior, actions and words that people use without meaning to [be racist]," Hernandez-Gravelle said...
Such are the rewards of cynicism and cowardice. The passions aroused by the pay fray may have been extraordinary, but the duplicitous behavior it spawned is typical. Running for cover has become such natural behavior that Congressmen will go to extremes to duck accountability. The only way Congress could muster the moxie to close 86 outmoded military bases was first to appoint a commission whose recommendations will automatically take effect in April unless rescinded by both houses. To mask its inability to confront the deficit, Congress created the Gramm-Rudman guillotine, which arbitrarily cuts the budget if compromise fails...
...Blume, director of a treatment program at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, N.Y.: "There is no evidence of a single addictive personality type. You cannot go to a class of junior high kids and pick out who will become an addict." Nonetheless, addicts do have a common pattern of behavior. Observes Blume: "They have translated feelings of distress like 'I'm bored' or 'I'm lonely' or 'I'm angry' into feelings of 'I need a drink' or 'a hit' or 'a fix.' " Tina Tessina, a therapist in Long Beach, Calif., points out that people with dependencies try to "meet...
...BEHAVIOR: The continuing struggle of Kitty Dukakis...
Israeli officials condemned the report as "harsh" and "one-sided," but did not dispute the particulars. Instead they argued that the U.S. had ignored the "constant provocations" by "extremist elements." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir charged that the "media exaggerate" and said that "the behavior of our army is equal to that of any other army in the Western world...