Word: accustomedness
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Rules of Order. Membership in Augusta National is strictly limited to 200, regulated loosely on a geographical quota system (no more than 50 members, say, can come from the New York area), and rigidly controlled by Roberts and Jones. "As far as I can recall," says Roberts, "nobody has ever...
As part of its continuing efforts to bolster the pound, Britain last month imposed a severe tax on all investment income exceeding $7,200. Though Brit ons have grown accustomed to bitter fiscal medicine, that dose has been particularly hard to swallow. Reason: the special one-year measure carries the...
The Saigon Capital Zone South Viet Nam's capital now wears the air of "nervous normalcy" to which more isolated province capitals have grown accustomed. Most businesses have reopened, but stocks are low. The western one-third of the Chinese quarter of Cholon is still insecure at night, the...
Actually, the sayings are those of that less celebrated but no less sage Oriental, Charlie Chan. To the world's most renowned Chinese detective, life was just a bowl of fortune cookies, to be cracked continually like homicide cases. Created in the late '20s by Earl Diggers as...
Tutorial has worked out slightly better. Here, at least, there is opportunity to meet on a relatively individual basis with one's instructor. When difficulties arise, they usually come either from the tutor's transient interest in education (most are graduate students working to continue their own studies) or from...