Word: amassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many televised and other mass media presentations antisocial models amass considerable rewarding resources through devious means but are punished following the last commercial on the assumption that the punishment ending will erase or counteract the learning of the model's antisocial behavior. The findings of an experiment by Bandura in 1965 reveal that although punishment administered to a model tends to inhibit children's performance of the modeled behavior, it has virtually no influence on the occurrence of imitative learning. In this experiment children observed a film-mediated aggressive model who was severely punished in one condition, generously rewarded...
...fair share because he is preoccupied instead with the thought that his money is being given out in some fraction to welfare recipients. He is more suspectible to the latter viewpoint because all his life he has been taught to believe that a man should work for himself to amass as much wealth as he can in ceaseless competition with everybody else...
...insidious effect on student-faculty relationships." As for tenure, if the School was going to redefine academic standards for students and admissions requirements for black students, it was only logical to extend the new criteria of "intellectual vigor" to faculty. Faculty members should also be allowed to amass "unorthodox educational or community experience" without putting their jobs on the line...
...Dean has at his disposal a bureaucracy which can amass all the facts pertinent to proposals. Invariably, then, the Dean is better prepared for debate than are those who oppose his plans. He commands respect by virtue of his detailed knowledge, and closeness to day-to-day affairs...
...with a sweep of the primaries. Oregon was his most impressive win of all. More than in Nebraska, his absentee rivals, Rockefeller and Reagan, had the benefit of well-financed publicity drives aimed at cutting down Nixon's plurality. Yet Nixon smashed all public and private predictions to amass 73% of the vote, compared with 23% for Reagan, who was on the ballot, and a 4% write-in for Rockefeller...