Word: accustomedness
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No wonder the president took Hoffmann's query as a non sequitut. Bok and Harvard's financial managers simply aren't accustomed to grounding investment decisions in ethical standards, only to dressing them up afterwards in ethical mist.
A slim, eloquent man, Lawson is aware that the dreadlocks he wears may compound the probability that police will stop him. But he has no intention of cutting them, though they have no religious significance to him as they do for the Rastafarians of Jamaica; he just does not like...
Golf is one sport that cannot usually be moved indoors. As a result, golfers grow accustomed to playing in conditions most would term abysmal. "We've gotten to the point where we're so cynical about the weather." Captain Steve Baker commented, "we just assumed we were still going to...
Inconvenienced by fog and showers at Annapolis, the Crimson moved indoors to play in the Midshipmen's large athletic facility. The courts were made of a much slower surface than those the Crimson has become accustomed to. If the visitors were uncomfortable, the results certainly didn't show it.
Most educators believe that Asian scholastic achievement has more to do with nurture than nature. They argue that Asian immigrants are accustomed to a more rigorous schedule; the Japanese, for instance, attend school 225 days instead of a typical U.S. schedule of 180. Many Asian-American children have well-educated...