Word: craves
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METROPOLITAN SMOKERS ARE A FORlorn lot these days. As more cities ban cigarettes in public places, smokers are altering every daily habit but the one they most crave. They take lunch at the restaurant bar because only there can they enjoy a quick stick of nicotine for dessert. They dash from their seats at the football stadium to the rest-room, missing the play of the day for the puff of the moment. Shivering in shirtsleeves outside their office complexes, they increase the risk that they will succumb not to emphysema but to chilblains...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was a reluctant politician. He did not crave attention or court stardom. He treated power not as a perk but as a privilege. He desperately believed that there could be peace in the Middle East, but he never forgot that peace was hard and painful and still good...
...students are already willing to work for Powell is an indication of his widespread support. For example, no student group organized on this campus to assist Ross Perot in the last election. Powell is not only seen as a more realistic presidential candidate but the nation also seems to crave his leadership and steadfastness...
...stop the outlets from proliferating because I need my phone, my fax, my modem. I crave the dope, the nitrous, the crack. I die without your sustenance, your community. I am nothing when deprived of that liaison with power...
...potential for getting our own genes into the next generation. But the same forces now fuel a growing population that is rapidly destroying the natural world. The reproductive behavior that helped us survive as a species may no longer be beneficial. DON C. SCHMITZ Tallahassee, Florida What we crave is people--the closeness of relatives, the cup of sugar a neighbor hands over the fence and the unexpected guest for dinner. These are not Darwin's so-called social instincts but the valuable fruits of peace and contentment. They are never gained by quick phone calls, handshakes, cards, promises...