Word: behavior
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...going to appeal [the decision]. There's no reason for me to be discharged based on who I am and not because of my behavior," May said...
...that behavior defied a bedrock principle that the market makes most people look silly most of the time, a principle that quietly resurfaced last spring in the form of a dotcom massacre and today presses squarely in the face of eternal bulls. As has been fairly obvious for most of human history, not all market pullbacks are buying opportunities...
...bowls--the "active," intimately handled objects of a ceremony that, imported from China, had been turned by its first Japanese grandmaster, Sen No Rikyu, into a cultural rite linked to Zen Buddhism. The "way of tea" had become an essential part of the samurai-influenced code of upper Japanese behavior. It connoted roughness, naturalness and--at its origins, at least--lack of pretension. In it, aesthetics and morality were conjoined, under the sign of severe restraint...
...against others that lies behind one's conscious feelings. Your report brought to mind the hurtful results of cruel policies toward minorities. The issue of the terrible treatment of the Aborigines is one not only for Australians but also for the rest of us. There are examples in the behavior of the Asian people in wartime and toward the Ainu, Hokkaido's distinctive people who have been supplanted by the Japanese. SHIRO MATSUMOTO Chiba, Japan...
Unfortunately, it is mathematically quite complicated to determine a precise formula to govern the behavior of a heating system which is both energy-efficient and heats the house quickly. Fuzzy math is aimed at exactly this issue: It provides a set of tools to find optimal solutions to problems by analyzing hybrids between several different alternatives...