Word: accustomedness
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What's spurring the trend? One theory is that we've grown accustomed to giant servings offered up in restaurants. Another possibility, and one more troubling to dieticians, is that we're just not satisfied by what we're eating. "The American diet has cut back dramatically on things like...
It's also important to master the fine points of fitting in locally. As a seasoned operative notes, if you're in Iowa you have to know when the Jell-O is being served as a salad and when it's a dessert. And no one can afford to ignore...
HOSPITALIZED. EMPEROR AKIHITO, 69, for prostate cancer treatment; in Tokyo. A tumor was discovered last December, and the Emperor is expected to remain in hospital for about a month after an operation to remove it. The news came as a surprise to a Japanese public accustomed to being kept in...
“I just did what comes naturally,” said Morris, who is accustomed to making such athletic displays look easy.
BRAZIL Misery's Road Trip On his first official trip, newly elected President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took 29 members of his cabinet to Vila IrmãDulce in the northeastern state of Piauí, the second-poorest in Brazil, to witness what he called "absolute poverty." Lula - as...