Word: misbehavior
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Harris plays the phoniest, deadliest and most seductive figure in the clan, fluttering her eyelashes and flinging her hands up in merry confusion every time she gives another derailing shove to the rules of common courtesy. Her monstrous misbehavior is accompanied by an elfin, confessional grin calculated to excuse a multitude of sins. As her novelist husband, Roy Dotrice uses dottiness as an excuse for complete indifference to those around him: at teatime he fills and sips from cup after cup until he is surrounded by soiled china, then passes tea and edibles to each member of his family while...
...inspection provisions cannot prevent anyone from trying to divert nuclear materials. At best, they provide an alarm system if misbehavior is possible or has already occurred. The system's most important function is that it demonstrates good faith on the part of countries that have agreed to participate. Says a former I.A.E.A. official: "Safeguards are in a way similar to detente. They can only survive if there is mutual trust...
...recession. Narongchai noted that the combined gross national product of the Association (of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), which includes Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Brunei, is only $200 billion. Said he: "All we produce in a year would barely be enough to pay for the misbehavior of the U.S. Government...
...ORDER TO insure stability the U.S. has habitually answered Central American uprisings with force. Such was the notion behind Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick approach to the regions' troubles. It was Roosevelt who began the practice to dispatching the marines for any misbehavior south of the border. When, during the Depression, this became too costly a procedure, the U.S. began training local armies, such as Nicaragua's infamous National Guard, to do its police work...
Advocates of complete decriminalization argue that the court system places an unfair portion of the blame for misbehavior on the child while simultaneously according him too little responsibility for amending his own faults. Seeking to improve on the current procedure, several programs have arisen which assign blame and input alike to the child and filer of the CHINS petition...