Word: accustomedness
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This ambitious scheme has got off to a somewhat stumbling and chaotic start. State bankers at the end of 1984 overused their new authority and went on such a wild lending spree that the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, had to tell them to stop...
Just this Christmas past, Naomi Judd, a local girl made very good indeed, went back home to Ashland, Ky. She stopped off at the white bungalow where she had been raised, then moved on to Jane's beauty salon on 13th Street to "get a manicure, now that I have...
Isaacson is accustomed to dealing with knotty political issues. He joined TIME as a staff writer in 1978 and a year later became a correspondent in Washington, where he covered the presidential campaigns of Senator Ted Kennedy and former California Governor Ronald Reagan. He returned to the Nation section in...
How did things get so bad so fast? Many attribute Anaya's troubles to his combative personality. He had made his name as the state's attorney general, battling white-collar corruption and crusading for consumer and environmental causes. Once he became Governor, Anaya, an achiever accustomed to getting his...
Among the first of history's judges were the Filipinos who filed through the palace last week, many of whom earn less in a year than Imelda spent on a single pair of shoes. "I am appalled by the greed," said one nun after her glimpse into the life-style...