Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market procedures that led to the crash and recommend ways to prevent a recurrence. Two other probes were started by the watchdog Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to study the extravagant volatility of stock and futures markets during the crash. Other studies of market behavior were being sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Meanwhile, the House and Senate banking committees and the House Commerce Committee were holding hearings of their...
...Bergman, 40. Since 1980 the actors have been crisscrossing the country in a rickety red-and-white bus, playing in penitentiaries and juvenile-detention centers, holding theatrical workshops and performing their largely improvised plays about prison life. One aim is to force prisoners to admit to themselves that criminal behavior is stupid and ugly. "Our work is no more than 20th century versions of medieval folk tales," says the British-born Bergman, a voluble, witty man who smokes incessantly and is forever running his hand through his tangled, shoulder- length hair...
...hiring of strippers, and the behavior which reportedly accompanied their acts, are exercises that portray people as objects in a degrading, dehumanizing and tasteless manner," the letter reads...
...ravenous taste for imported goods and credit-card spending. All told, the roaring '80s have been a time of refusal to confront limitations. Declares Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn: "In an act of the ultimate financial cowardice, we have attempted to pass on to our children the cost of this behavior by borrowing from tomorrow...
With this venerable tradition for anniversary behavior well ingrained into the psyches of all Americans, the Corny Card companies make a fortune. The cards have a picture of a flower on the front, or a bird, and inside they read something like...