Word: accustomedness
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Along with pervasive fear, the AIDS crisis has caused a drastic change in the life-styles of those homosexuals who were accustomed to multiple partners. Most of them have altered their sexual habits to a degree that would have seemed inconceivable five years ago, significantly reducing the number of their...
We've grown accustomed to his faces: Hitler the buffoon, Hitler the madman, Hitler the monster. Memoirs of a Confidant introduces us to Hitler the misunderstood idealist whose vision of peace and prosperity was distorted by his gangster lieutenants. The author of this benign nonsense was Otto Wagener, a forgotten...
The irritating thing about sudden changes in time-honored customs is not necessarily the arrival of the unneeded new but the abolition of the cherished old. To people who don't like flying, for example, it is depressing to realize that there is virtually no other way to get to...
not implementing E.U. reform directives, the ease with which Germany's utility mammoth E.ON sidestepped competition laws to acquire Ruhrgas in 2003 suggests stronger remedies may be needed. "Incumbent monopolies are like elephants," says one Commission official. "They live long lives, have long memories and do not take gracefully to...
I am driven south to the village of Nam Dinh, which had 50 bombs dropped on it on June 18, a raid that destroyed about 60% of the hamlet. People are hard at work rebuilding their homes, but [her guide and interpreter] Quoc says that the area is bombed almost...