Word: accustomedness
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In addition, the more than 9 million wage earners covered by contracts containing cost of living adjustment clauses will also feel a transitional pinch. COLAS automatically adjust earnings to help offset inflation, and many people have become accustomed to counting on those illusionary increases in their incomes.
Washington's position of neutrality in the Falklands issue reeks equally of error. The administration has become so accustomed to excusing the vicious Argentine injustices--so adept at defending Argentine's vicious "road to democracy"--that it finds itself unable to criticize the Falkland takeover. Britain may not be faultless...
The region so accustomed to turmoil had seldom been tenser on so many fronts for so many reasons. A general strike of protest against the Jerusalem shooting incident was in effect for a day in much of the Arab world and for the rest of the week in most of...
The idea of producing Falstaff originated four years ago, when Giulini became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, succeeding Zubin Mehta. He and Ernest Fleischmann, the orchestra's shrewd executive director, agreed that Giulini would lead at least one fully staged opera under ideal working conditions during his...
BOTH JUSTICES emerge as men whose extensive pre-Court political activity so accustomed them to practical politics that they could not resist the temptation to intervene in executive of legislative affairs Brandeis, a Woodrow Wilson appointee who served on the Court between 1916 and 1939, had previously been a Populistic...