Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former "Today Show" host confidently and frequently cut off the 12 men likely to be the next leader of the free world. Contrast that with his obsequious behavior on t.v. the night before with Mikhail Gorbachev--a telegenic and articulate Mayor Daleytype--and you get an idea who's a bigger ratings draw and why Judge Robert Bork has some misgiving about the First Amendment. "I see," Brokaw would say, nodding with an impressed smile to Gorbachev answers like "We have eliminated the exploitation of man by man. We have no unemployed!" to such questions as "Why are there...
...course, professional sports leagues should be supervised accordingly. Their books should be open to public scrutiny, and regulatory commissions should closely monitor the behavior of the leagues as a whole and the individual teams within them...
...judgment, people cried. If public figures misbehave in private, then how can we trust them in office? Good character is an important quality of leadership. Adulterers and plagiarizers should not be models for children to admire. Public figures have to meet a certain standard of behavior just because they are in the spotlight...
Cloninger's work added key pieces to the puzzle of alcoholism by suggesting traits that certain types of alcoholics have in common. For example, Cloninger found that his male-limited alcoholics tended to be aggressive, even violent types. He hypothesizes that the nervous system underlying such behavior may react to alcohol in a way that quickly leads to dependence. "It's not proved," says Cloninger. "It's testable." Says Boris Tabakoff of the NIAAA: "For those of us looking for biological markers, Dr. Cloninger's work gives us a road map we can follow to link genetic traits to behavior...
...still young 1988 election cycle would have been inconceivable a generation ago: two presidential candidates already dispatched by fatal headlines, several others wounded, a few discouraged from entering. As recently as the 1960s, journalistic convention protected the private lives of politicians except under unusual circumstances. Now any behavior that would earn demerits for a boy scout seems fair game. But is that fair? Last week this trend was prompting some healthy reappraisal that might save campaign '88 from runaway triviality. As James Gannon, editor of the Des Moines Register, puts it: "A lot of respected journalistic guts are saying 'Whoa...