Word: spectrum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other end of the spectrum are the clearly offensive cases Faw of these incidents involve physical sexual harassment beyond a kiss. In these cases, however, the students were able to get away befor the advances escalated...
...nature/nurture issue. More precisely, the genetic and developmental programming which is responsible for a given behavior can either be closed to or susceptible to environmental modification. This depends on the species and behavior under discussion. The complexity of the theoretical and empirical issues involved leads understandably to a wide spectrum of opinion within the field on certain questions, especially human behavior. Therefore, to assert that sociobiologists believe behavior is "genetic" and hence ineradicable or unmodifiable is an unscientific and unethical misrepresentation which plays into the hands of those who SFTP claims to fear most...
...with a tune called "Rose Coloured Lights." Like everything else on the album, it slides neatly in one ear and just as neatly oozes out the other. The proposed image was, as Hubbard notes, of "a yacht in the Mediterranean. Leaning over a rail at night thinking. The whole spectrum of love: the champagne of c'est la vie in a million stories...
...here in the cradle of liberty, the only state that voted for McGovern in '72, the home of hundreds of thousands of college students and young professionals, the three fell over each other in trying to appear as the real hope of the broad left wing of the political spectrum. Kennedy and Carter campaigned for the JFK nostalgia vote while Brown went for the anti-nuke, anti-corporate inner space forces...
...situation, as a social anthropologist by training, as a very good thing, provided that there is understanding between a man like Dr. Treurnicht and myself. If a bridge can be built on two strong pillars across a rather wide spectrum, it may in that way effect renewal and reform and solve problems...