Word: accustomedness
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The aftermath of the hurricane brought these rudiments of humanity to mind. It was a case study in why societies exist-which may be the one good thing to emerge from this mess. We have grown accustomed to best-case scenarios in the U.S.; we have come to assume that...
Come September, I’ll be able to chuck nice shoes aside once more and carry on in all of my accustomed New Balanced glory. It will likely be the last time I get to do it. My heels will come back to campus with me to go to...
For now, Best Buy's hybrid nature--half flexible, half 9 to 5--is stirring conflict too. Ressler and Thompson get desperate e-mails from a handful of ROWE employees--accustomed to freedom--who have moved to jobs in departments that still operate on traditional schedules. "We could have a...
After finishing the 2004-05 season with a 22-5 record, junior captain heavyweight wrestler Bode Ogunwole is accustomed to a leadership role on the Harvard wrestling team. But at the Junior World Freestyle Championships last week, Ogunwole found himself in a new position—leading not the Crimson...
Daniel Scot and Danny Nalliah, both Pentecostalist Christians, are accustomed to taking risks for their faith. A decade ago, Nalliah, a Sri Lankan-born Australian, narrowly escaped being caught with 400 smuggled Bibles in Saudi Arabia, where preaching Christianity is a crime. Scot, who grew up Christian in Muslim Pakistan...