Every departure from what has been asserted as "proper" and "fitting" from that very specific standpoint is dismissed as aberrant, and is ridiculed and subordinated.
Hoping to snuff out aberrant individualism, the ministry introduced detailed rules governing uniforms, haircuts and codes of conduct.
In June this year, the SEC fined Andersen $7m for "improper professional conduct", its first such case for more than 20 years.This was not mere aberrant behaviour by some far-flung outpost of the 85,000-strong Andersen empire.
So long as the world in this case the family and its structure is not too aberrant, most predictable phenotypic differences will be the result of genetic differences, sometimes quite small ones, not environmental differences.
No wonder GM has been called a workers' collective, and Detroit a mini-Sweden.Imperfect competitionOne plausible explanation of this aberrant behaviour lies in the industry's ownership structure.
This is particularly worrying in the light of work which shows that pathological behaviour in childhood is a good predictor of a lifetime of aberrant behaviour.Some caution is needed.
The cancer concerned, known rather cryptically as non-small-cell lung cancer, is actually the most common form of the disease, accounting for about 80% of cases.In 2007 a group of researchers discovered that the fusion of two normally independent genes, EML4 and ALK, into one aberrant gene seems to drive the formation of tumours.
Next month Britain will have its first referendum for years (on whether to change its voting system), and there is talk of voter recalls for aberrant MPs.
Add to these genuinely free media and a citizenry glued to news bulletins, and the result is a healthy cacophony that no aberrant government could silence without resort to force.In the past year music activists in particular have proven adept at rallying public opinion.
It is a mistake to "categorise the minorities by the behaviour of their most aberrant members".Clearly so.
In a recent speech to journalists David Irvine, a former head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the country's domestic spy agency, insisted that violent extremists comprise a tiny minority—"a few hundred aberrant souls".
