Word: accustomedness
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A skeptic accustomed to conventional medicine quickly misplaces all familiar landmarks when trying to assess the possible medical value of such treatments. Surely the notion that your entire body can be treated via the feet stretches credence to the breaking point -- especially when you consider that chiropractors say the same...
Defenders of the right to die point to the need for careful safeguards around the process: Kevorkian ignored them all. There were no second opinions, no consent forms, no examinations to make sure that Kevorkian's "patients" were of sound mind as they made their decision. As a pathologist more...
I'VE BEEN TRANSFORMED from a polite, mild-mannered teenager into a cold-blooded, sadistic murderer. It's brutal, I know, but after a while, one gets accustomed to playing God with the lives of these creatures. I think it's having an adverse effect on me.
Lifetime Cambridge resident Cornelia B. Wheeler, who served on the City Council from 1958 through 1970, says she can no longer do her day-to-day shopping and errands in the Square, as she was once accustomed to. "Now for me there's nothing left," she says.
Many Amex customers, though accustomed to paying in full each month, proved much less disciplined in their approach to the Optima card. "We thought we had better demographics and experience with our customers," says James Robinson, Amex's chairman, who defended the company's assumptions. "Either our hypothesis was wrong...