Word: misbehaviors
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...believes Iran is attempting to build a nuclear bomb. While acknowledging that the experience with contractors in Iraq has been a “mixed bag,” Casey said the army could not take on the security services contractors have been providing. Responding to questioning on army misbehavior, Casey said that the army is “a big organization—a million people. You get some bad apples in there occasionally.” After the forum, some military members of the audience, who asked not to be identified by name, said that too many...
...popularity of her phrase to its ambiguity when unmoored from its original context. Some take it to mean “good girls get no credit.” Others see it as saying “bad girls have more fun.” But the appeal of misbehavior can also have to do with reading against the grain.A PRESENT CONSTRUCTIONWhile Ulrich’s book encompasses everyone from Amazons to abolitionists, it returns again and again to the texts of three prominent writers in women’s history—Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cady Stanton...
...Administration's national-security team. Yet no action was taken until mid-January, when Specialist Joseph Darby, a member of the 372nd Military Police Company, got hold of some of the incriminating photographs. He slipped an anonymous note under the door of a superior officer, reporting the misbehavior, and then turned over the photos proving...
...half of it. Arum's research indicates that cases like Tinker encourage students and teachers to believe that kids have far more legal rights than they actually do. Possibly as a result, 82% of public school teachers and 77% of principals practice "defensive teaching" like ignoring misbehavior so they can avoid lawsuits, according to a 2004 Harris poll. "What these cases do," says Negrn , "is have a chilling effect on [the ability of] administrators and teachers to make the decisions they need to make...
...with distant fathers score lower on tests of empathy, reasoning and brain development than those whose fathers are more involved. The former behave more aggressively, don't get on as well with siblings, tend to be less popular in school and are more reluctant to take responsibility for their misbehavior. In 2002, the U.S. National Center for Policy Analysis concluded that kids with physically absent fathers were up to three times more likely to use drugs and engage in criminal behavior. Last month, an Israeli study reported that children with absent fathers were more likely to have trouble forming...