Word: jerkings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...useful. De Becker, a compulsive systemizer who has sold the Supreme Court his MOSAIC-2 computer program for risk assessment, offers 17 signs that a worker may become violent, and 30 predictors for murder within a marriage. He urges battered wives to flee but argues eloquently against the knee-jerk use of temporary restraining orders, which, he notes acerbically, "work best on the person least likely to be violent anyway" and enrage the rest...
Actually, I take that back. If you're a jerk, it will show...
...experience helps explain why the NAFTA generation is much more poised to break with entrenched economic and cultural traditions. Young people want realism instead of nationalist ideology in their movies and music, and surveys show they prize honesty, competence and practicality over old-fashioned lockstep thinking and knee-jerk anti-Americanism. With AIDS the third leading killer of Mexicans under age 35, they are demanding a more candid discussion in the traditionally prim media of issues like sexuality. The demands have helped spawn a renaissance in Mexican television, cinema and journalism...
...bureaucrats talk all the time about how they have an open market and believe in internationalization," says Robert M. Orr, a baseball enthusiast and vice president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan. "But then when it breaks up the harmony of the system, Japan's knee-jerk reaction is to claim special rules...
...usually not enough of a big deal," says Travis D. Wheatley '99. "My main problems have always been the receptionists who seem to jerk me around. Those seem more like minor annoyances...