Word: accustomedness
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De Gennaro says he welcomes a committee that iswilling to "meet more frequently and do a lot morework than the committee has been accustomed to inthe past."
The idea behind the Earth Summit was that the relaxation of cold war tensions, combined with the heightened awareness of these growing ecological crises, offered a rare opportunity to persuade countries to look beyond their national interests and agree to some basic changes in the way they treat the environment...
Among other things, being a Murphy Mom means having postponed childbirth until your salary has reached the upper brackets and you have sufficient disposable income to employ a full-time muralist and buy enough Scandinavian furniture to induce existential dread. But even at the upper end, where the career track...
Because when these rich guys get into office, we find they're disastrous as political leaders. They're so accustomed to working in hierarchical, top-down organizations -- where they can fire anyone who doesn't jump high enough -- they go berserk with frustration when nobody jumps at all. You can...
He picked up his victims at bus stops and other public places, lured them into the woods, killed them, cut them up and possibly ate parts of them. Citizens of the former Soviet Union have only recently become accustomed to reading about everyday crimes in the once rigidly controlled press...