Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writes, and adds, sounding a little like his subject: "In fact he was a complex one." The marquess, mad at Wilde and the world, threw out insults that practically begged for a libel suit. Wilde unwisely started one, lost and as a result was tried for sodomy and indecent behavior; convicted of the lesser charge, he served two years at hard labor...
...regional party first secretary who was intelligent and congenial would have been considered untypical. If Gorbachev had yelled, sworn, been a heavy drinker or a high liver with a rest house outside of town where officials could be entertained by pretty waitresses, that would have been considered normal behavior...
...General Secretary of the Communist $Party of the U. S. S. R. and one of the world' s $most formidable leaders. He has begun to shake $the Soviet economy from decades of lethargy, $open the machinery of government to greater $public scrutiny and inject a new flexibility into $Soviet behavior abroad. Millions of television $viewers around the world have grown $accustomed to his face -- and welcomed the $December agreement he signed with the U. S. $banning intermediate- range nuclear missiles. $The West still distrusts him, and his own $countrymen do not always agree with his $reforms, but Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev...
After 13 months of anticipation and delays, Wall Street's most spectacular speculator -- and insider trader -- finally heard his fate. Hands clutched behind his back, Ivan Boesky, 50, listened pensively while U.S. District Court Judge Morris Lasker told a packed courtroom in Manhattan, "Criminal behavior such as Boesky's cannot go unchecked. Its seriousness was too substantial merely to forgive and to forget." With that the judge sentenced the onetime superstar investor to three years in prison for his role in the largest insider-trading scandal in history...
...serves on the American Bar Association's white-collar-crime committee: "You can see people convicted of relatively petty crimes being sentenced to about the same time that Mr. Boesky received for crimes involving sums of money many, many times larger." Law-enforcement officials estimate that with good behavior, Boesky will probably wind up serving no more than 20 months...