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Stephen Gerald Breyer
Stephen Gerald Breyer , 1938-, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1994-), b. San Francisco. A graduate of Stanford and Oxford universities and of Harvard Law School (1964), he clerked (1964-65) for Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg , then worked for the Justice Dept. and as chief coun... Read more
multiculturalism
multiculturalism or cultural pluralism, a term describing the coexistence of many cultures in a locality, without any one culture dominating the region. By making the broadest range of human differences acceptable to the largest number of people, multiculturalism seeks to overcome racism, sexis... Read more
speculation
speculation practice of engaging in business in order to make quick profits from fluctuations in prices, as opposed to the practice of investing in a productive enterprise in order to share in its earnings. The term is sometimes applied to investment in a venture involving abnormal risks along with... Read more
smoking
smoking inhalation and exhalation of the fumes of burning tobacco in cigars and cigarettes and pipes. Some persons draw the smoke into their lungs; others do not. Smoking was probably first practiced by the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Originally used in religious rituals, and ... Read more
National Organization for Women
National Organization for Women (NOW), group founded (1966) to support "full equality for women in America in a truly equal partnership with men." Its founder and first president was feminist leader Betty Friedan , author of The Feminine Mystique (1963). Through a program of legislative lobb... Read more
Paul Carus
Paul Carus 1852-1919, American philosopher, born and educated in Germany. For many years he was editor of the Open Court and the Monist, periodicals devoted to philosophy and religion. His philosophy was monistic, seeking to establish religion on a scientific basis. Among his many works were F... Read more
Cassandra
Cassandra , in Greek legend, Trojan princess, daughter of Priam and Hecuba. She was given the power of prophecy by Apollo, but because she would not accept him as a lover, he changed her blessing to a curse, causing her prophecies never to be believed. While seeking refuge from the Greeks during the... Read more
Diogenes of Apollonia
Diogenes of Apollonia , 5th cent. BC, Greek philosopher. An eclectic, he reverted to the Milesian tradition of a century earlier in seeking to explain the constitution of all matter in terms of a single basic stuff. He believed, with Anaximenes, that this substance was air and, with Anaxagoras, that... Read more
Manu
Manu , semilegendary Hindu lawgiver. Traditionally ascribed to him are the Laws of Manu, best known of the Sanskrit smriti texts (see Sanskrit literature ). They were compiled, probably between 200 BC and AD 200, from diverse ancient sources and provide detailed rules, presumably directed to Br... Read more
Marathon
Marathon in ancient Greece, the scene of a victory over the Persians in 490 bc; the modern marathon race (strictly one of 26 miles 38 yards or 42.195 km.) is based on the tradition that a messenger ran from Marathon to Athens (22 miles) with the news, dying with the words ‘Greetings, we win!... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "risk seeking"

Thrill-Seeking
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Thrill-Seeking Americans dangle...such recreational risk-taking, do people...stop and go silent. Risk-taking is also...Texas. Thrill-seeking behavior has long...and other thrill-seeking activities in developing...where death is a risk in everyday life...
Second Opinion
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers ...major procedure with associated risks that should not be taken lightly...patient. For these reasons, seeking a second opinion from another...doctor or surgeon may encourage seeking a second opinion, particularly...their own health care. Patient seeking a second-opinion consultation...
Risk Takers
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Risk Takers To take risks is to make decisions for...and business entity is a risk taker at some level. However...traditional finance theory, many risk takers exhibit an optimistic...effect that optimistic risk-seeking behavior exhibited by some...
smoking
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...smokeless tobacco" ) run a greater risk of developing cancer of the...has been found to increase the risk of heart disease and respiratory...Children of smokers have a higher risk of asthma and lung disease...mounting evidence of health risks, television advertisements...Under heavy attack from ...
Operation Liberty Shield
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...during periods of heightened risk of terrorism. The operation...Liberty Shield, individuals seeking asylum for political purposes...verified and their reasons for seeking asylum confirmed as legitimate. While all individuals seeking asylum would be temporarily...
Misrepresentation
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...misrepresentation was material to the risk insured against and would have influenced...issue a policy. For example, if a person seeking auto insurance states that she has no...auto policy. However, if the person was seeking health insurance, such a misrepresentation...
Chinese Diaspora
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...shores, fleeing poverty or conflict or seeking economic opportunities. Chinese have...and hierarchy and disapproved of trade, risk, and profit. Wang describes how the...merchants and pirates from Fujian, who were seeking a base for maritime activities, and by...
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...is affected by investment, risk, and income and wealth levels...insights into the nature of risk in financial and insurance markets...x2014; for example, applicants seeking jobs from potential employers and prospective borrowers seeking credit from lenders. Principals...
Hysteria
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed. ...emotions, dramatics, and attention-seeking behavior. Description Hysterical disorders...typically self-centered and attention seeking. They operate on emotion, rather than...personality disorder may be at a higher risk for suicidal gestures, attempts, or...
Crimes of Honor
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...members have recourse to arguments of honor in seeking reduced sentences for murder. Among activists seeking to eliminate crimes of honor, there is deep...against women. Using the term honor killing risks endorsing the description articulated by...

Dictionary entries related to "risk seeking"

Statement by Committee Seeking Peace with Freedom in Vietnam (1967)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History STATEMENT BY COMMITTEE SEEKING PEACE WITH FREEDOM IN VIETNAM (1967) The Committee Seeking Peace with Freedom in Vietnam...endurable price and a bearable risk. Our objective in Vietnam...the price too high and the risk too great for the aggressor...
risk-seeking
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management risk-seeking Describing a risk preference in which the decision maker's attraction to an investment or other economic choice rises with higher average returns and a higher standard deviation of returns. Compare risk-averse ; risk-neutral .
material fact
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management ...important piece of information that a person seeking insurance must disclose to the insurer...have influenced the acceptance of the risk, the premium charged, or the exceptions...made public in its prospectus , if it is seeking a flotation on a stock exchange. 3...
Picketing
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...sides in these competitive situations. They have reasoned that risks of loss among competitors should not be abated by courts, absent...hardship does not make less legitimate the objectives of a union seeking organization, or of a nonunion shop resisting it, or of nonunion...
Alcohol, Regulation of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...century, Native Americans were not the only American society at risk of alcohol-induced disorganization. European American consumption...teetotalism"). By the late 1830s, temperance reformers were also seeking additional legislative curbs on the sale of liquor. Massachusetts...
Creek
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Yamasee War of 1715, when South Carolina determined that the risk of enslaving Indians was too great. The deerskin trade continued...the deer population had plummeted, and white Americans began seeking Creek lands rather than Creek deerskins. Under compulsion...
research ethics
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...other research designs which focus on very few cases (with the risk that they remain identifiable in reports). Public opinion...for genuine research purposes just as much as for publicity seeking mass media stories, as evidenced by periodic increases in survey...
Aphanisis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Jones applied this concept in a psychoanalytic sense in seeking to account for the disappearance of sexual desire in light of...focus its instinctual impulsive movements, and thus with the risk of losing the very possibility of the pleasure of desire as...
Parricide
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...predate the crime, which is in fact perpetrated as a way of seeking punishment. This claim was clinically demonstrated and developed...effort to erase the traces of a primal crime" (1997). The risks stemming from the unconscious and associated with crime...
Merchant Adventurers
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...came to represent those who were willing to "adventure, " or risk, their money in speculative ventures. One of the most speculative...successor, King James I, took strenuous issue with their beliefs. Seeking freedom to practice their religion, a group of Pilgrims, led...

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Sensation seeking, alcohol use and sexual risk behaviors among men receiving services at a clinic for sexually transmitted infections *.
Magazine article from: Journal of Studies on Alcohol; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...alcohol use and sexual risks, although sensation seeking does not account...alcohol use and sexual risk behavior. Our research...relationships among sensation seeking, substance use and sexual risks. In previous research...shown that sensation seeking, including sexual...contexts and ...
Sensation Seeking and Drug Use by Adolescents and Their Friends: Models for Marijuana and Alcohol(*).(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Journal of Studies on Alcohol; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...and drug use One of the risk factors underlying alcohol...behaviors, is sensation seeking (Zuckerman, 1979...association between sensation seeking and adolescent drug and...et al., 1980). The risk or illegality associated...for the high sensation seeking adolescent. Furthermore...
Sensation seeking and high-risk recreation.(research report)(includes related article on implementing findings of report)
Magazine article from: Parks & Recreation; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...subject. The term sensation seeking was coined to describe the...that includes a diversity of risk-taking and sensation-seeking behaviors as well as the expressed...intolerance of boredom. Sensation seeking, according to Zuckerman...to take physical and social risks for the sake of such ...
Sensation Seeking and Need for Achievement Among Study-Abroad Students.
Magazine article from: The Journal of Social Psychology; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...the Middle East. Sensation seeking is characterized by risk taking and a need for a variety...experiences. The Sensation Seeking Scale, Form 5 (Zuckerman et...subscales: Thrill and Adventure Seeking, which measures the desire...
Friends, porn, and punk: sensation seeking in personal relationships, Internet activities, and music preference among college students.
Magazine article from: Adolescence; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...sensation seeking as "the seeking of varied, novel, complex...social, legal, and financial risks for the sake of such experience" (p. 27). Sensation seeking includes risk-taking, which typically satisfies the high sensation seeking individual's desire for novel...
Optimal rent-seeking group.
Magazine article from: American Economist; 9/22/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...s expected value of rent-seeking is maximized. The solution...ik~ amount to the rent-seeking activities of the k-th group...total expenditure on rent-seeking activities. As in the literature...individuals are assumed to be risk-neutral. The i-th member...
Alcohol consumption, sensation seeking and ski injury: a case-control study.
Magazine article from: Journal of Studies on Alcohol; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...relatively high-risk activities for accidental...consumption and sensation-seeking disposition on accidental...physical and social risks for the sake of varied...thrill and adventure seeking, or the expressed...thrill and adventure-seeking dispositions to be associated with risk of ...
A rent-seeking experiment for the classroom.
Magazine article from: The Journal of Economic Education; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...reinforcing the idea of rent seeking with a classroom game, particularly...theoretical models of rent seeking described by Tullock (1980...exhibited an abnormally high-risk preference. These earlier...potential inefficiencies of rent seeking. In the following sections...
Avoidance of counseling psychological factors that inhibit seeking help.(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of Counseling and Development; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...to conceptualize help seeking is to view the decision...conceptualized the act of seeking professional help as...factors, such as the risks of being perceived as...factors in the help-seeking process: social stigma...anticipated utility and risks (Vogel & Wester...
High-risk sexual behaviour & sensation seeking among heavy alcohol users
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Medical Research; 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...alcohol use and high-risk sexual behaviour. One...users is the sensation-seeking dimension of personality...relationship between sensation seeking and sexual risk taking...south India, high-risk sexual behaviour was...relationship between sensation seeking and sexual risk ...