Word: behaviors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...encourage recent college graduates to feel more valued and involved than their entry-level counterparts in other professions, the abundance of teams, mentors and collegiate metaphors does not erase the fact that consulting firms are populated by extremely ambitious and "overachieving" people. During my visit, everyone was on good behavior. But management consultants do not always feel valued, projects that involve tremendous amounts of work may, in fact, have little effect on a client decision-making and sometimes, ambition can mar the ideal of harmonious teamwork...
...From what I see, there is very little nasty competitive behavior in class," he says. "Almost never does someone say something just to put someone else down. They are much more likely to articulate opinions to advocate a certain point of view...
...Center for Health Communication is devoted to using the media to influence positively public behavior and has successfully worked with Hollywood since the 1980s to prevent drunk driving, according to Winsten...
...Those whose parents approve of fighting; b) those with little parental supervision; c) those who have poor relations with their parents; or d) those who live in nontraditional families? Answer: all of the above. But according to a study in the December issue of the journal Health Education & Behavior, the most important of these is parental attitude; the least is family composition. Conclusion: never underestimate the power of parental instruction--no matter who does the parenting...
...relatively harmless but warn of a need to be wary. A child who spends too much time on video games may not disengage from a simulated world and thus may be confused in the real one. And while card trading teaches social skills, it may also lead to obsessive behavior. "You don't know whether there's a valuable card in a pack when you buy it," says Maressa Hecht Orzack, founder of the Computer Addiction Service at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. Children under eight aren't able to grasp this fact cognitively, which then leads to disappointment...