Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...against U.S. entries led by the powerful Tevatron at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) near Chicago and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California. Huge teams of physicists at the rival centers are working day and night to discover the next new particle and to explain the behavior of those already found. In recent years, each lab has had its share of triumphs...
...latest hit family, The Simpsons. Here the characters are animated but still a grungy, bickering lot. "Sometimes I think we're the worst family in town," says Dad gloomily. His solution is to drag his brood to a therapist, who hooks them up to electrodes as part of behavior- modification treatment. Result: they start giving one another electric shocks...
...word is being reiterated with a vengence. When prominent women are branded with this insidious word, we cannot be sure whether "bitchiness" is an image they cultivate, or merely a word we use to describe behavior that doesn't satisfy traditional notions of femininity...
...from a comprehensive 1987 college survey by Ms. magazine are mirrored by other studies across the nation and by reports from Harvard officials. All these studies show that the problem of acquaintance rape will not be solved unless men and women change their attitudes about what constitutes acceptable sexual behavior...
Other studies have shown that more than a third of men believe that women provoke rape by their appearance or behavior, that the degree of a woman's resistance should be the major factor in determining if a rape has occured and that it would do some women good to be raped...