Word: accustomedness
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The additional infusion of funds lent an entirely new dimension to the endemic problem of corruption. Although Mexicans are accustomed to the idea that their elected officials will steal "a little bit," they were not prepared for the flagrant abuses that began to be obvious. To many Mexicans, the previous...
If the Reagan system is relaxed, though, it is also in its way rigidly enforced. Alexander Haig, for one, never caught on to the President's style. Accustomed to the Army chain of command, Haig constantly pressed Reagan for decisions on matters where his views clashed with those of the...
Maders, a varsity soccer player, added that he became accustomed to using the Q-RAC for off-season conditioning during his freshman year, but has spent many afternoons in the IAB this fall.
The loser in this battle for allocations will be the Soviet consumer. Accustomed to a steady, though scarcely dramatic, rise in the standard of living under Brezhnev, Soviet citizens may have to settle for no further improvement in the 1980s. But they are not likely to rebel openly. Lacking any...
Another problem is that PACS have helped raise the cost of campaigning, just as the desire to buy more and more expensive television time increases a candidate's dependency on PACs. Says Democrat Andrew Jacobs of Indiana, a critic of PACs: "It's like getting addicted by a...