Word: shock
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Concerns about civil liberties sent shock waves through the community of librarians and library users throughout the country. Some librarian organizations have even created a line of sarcastic signs informing patrons that their privacy rights are being violated...
...complete power over other human beings, especially if they feel the behavior has been sanctioned by an authority figure. In a classic series of studies conducted at Yale in the 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram showed that psychologically healthy volunteers did not hesitate to administer what they thought were electric shocks to another human being when instructed to do so by a researcher. Two-thirds followed instructions and kept raising the voltage--right up to levels marked DANGER: SEVERE SHOCK and XXX. Milgram found that compliance was greatest when participants couldn't see the face of their subject (although they could...
...SHOCK THERAPY Soldiers "soften" captives before handing them over to interrogators. Prisoners are beaten, stripped, doused with water and subjected to drastic swings in temperature. They are often made to remain naked even while watched by female guards...
...investors. "When I began my career, we didn't look at the stock price, or only from time to time. Today you can't help looking at it several times a day," he says. That current European chief executives have less job security than they used to "doesn't shock me--to the contrary. We've also had a very big increase in salaries in the last few years," says Fourtou, whose annual salary is $1.2 million, plus a bonus of up to $1.5 million and stock options. He contends that the stable tenure of CEOs in the past...
DIED. HUBERT SELBY, 75, whose 1964 debut novel Last Exit to Brooklyn was met equally with shock and praise and was made into a 1989 film; of pulmonary disease; in Los Angeles. The book brutally depicted the seedy underbelly of 1950s Brooklyn as a wasteland prowled by gangs, prostitutes and transvestites...