Word: misbehaviors
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Similarly, after reviewing 38 studies of spanking, Robert Larzelere, a psychologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, concluded that in children under 7, nonabusive spanking reduced misbehavior without harmful effects. Not only does spanking work, Larzelere says, but it also reinforces milder forms of discipline, so that children are more apt to respond without spanking the next time...
Although his column was filled with strong opinions, he offered only one example of the egregious misbehavior of Harvard faculty. The Harvard history department, he claimed, can’t even be bothered to teach courses on the American Revolution. Ten minutes of research could have told him that the American history faculty, almost all of whom have been at Harvard less than 10 years, routinely win awards both for undergraduate teaching and for mentoring of graduate students. They hardly fit the stereotype of the “paleo-faculty” who supposedly resisted President Summers invocations to shapeup...
...Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System, General Motors and Verizon. As a Refco insider (several Lee executives are on the Refco board), Lee and the underwriters who took the company public may be on the hook for shareholder losses. "We have a history of taking forceful action in response to misbehavior," says Alan Hevesi, New York State comptroller, whose retirement system invested $36 million in Refco through Lee and others. Lee declined to comment. Bennett's lawyer, Gary Naftalis, reiterated what he had already said in court: "We think the government jumped...
...peaceful nuclear rights of such an egregious cheater as Pyongyang can hardly help the international campaign to dissuade Iran from building nuclear weapons under the cover of an energy program. As one Indian security analyst put it, "Why should India back Washington's effort to refer Iran's nuclear misbehavior to the United Nations?" North Korea withdrew from the NPT, made bombs, and has a covert uranium enrichment program it denies exists?yet Washington has affirmed its right to nuclear power plants. Why not treat Iran?an NPT member with an internationally inspected, overt enrichment program?the same...
...police investigation found that Snelgrove had not been involved in the rioting and misbehavior, and was “in all respects, an innocent bystander,” O’Toole said...