Word: reflex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Conditioned Reflex...
...Furor over Japanese Trade" [Nov. 13]: Japan will regret it if we have a Boston-type Tea Party, and consumers boycott items made in Japan. We, too, can acquire the mentality that if it isn't made in the U.S., we can make it here. The conditioned reflex can work both ways...
...incognizant of the fact of black violence, liberals have practiced a subtle racism. Silberman accepts this phenomenon, and explains it. Violence has been the leitmotif of black history in this country; violence maintained slavery and the racial caste system that came after it. One would naturally expect that the reflex of violence has been, until recently, sublimated in fantasy and controlled by black authority figures in the heterogeneous black community. Now, with the opening of the society at large to blacks, those who remain in the black communities are uniformly poor and unsuccessful; moreover, the process of sublimation has broken...
...adds, they have been replaced by something different: "a mentality on the part of the average Japanese businessman that says 'I've been told for a hundred years I shouldn't import. I can make it here.' It's a sort of conditioned reflex." Says Norman Glick, a member of the U.S. Commerce Department's trade facilitation committee: "The Japanese have protection in depth. As soon as you peel away one layer, you find another...
...than mere insurance. As soon as the automobile became popular, the motoring public began to develop what San Francisco Liability Lawyer Scott Conley calls the belief that "there must be a pot of gold at the end of every whiplash." Now the old litigious spirit has become almost a reflex. Malpractice suits against doctors are epidemic. The volume of damage suits, doubling in some jurisdictions in the past ten to 15 years, has been increasing five times as fast as the population in bellwether California...