Word: frequentative
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...debate over Rana Irfan's frequent trips back home to India took years to resolve. She enjoyed them, but her husband Kareem found them unnecessary. Eventually the issue was resolved in Kareem's favor, as are many between them. Their marriage, says Rana, 37, a spirited and sophisticated native of Bombay, is based on "consultation," but in the end, "someone has to take charge. That is my husband." It says as much in the Koran...
Clothed in black, with Easter Island faces and pilgrim hats, the puppets bore labels on their chests identifying them as members of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing board and a frequent target of PSLM protests...
...death of 22-year-old Io Nachtwey, a homeless woman from Hawaii who frequented the Pit in Harvard Square, is a tragic reminder that no one is completely safe, even in our own neighborhood. But subsequent calls by City Councillor Michael A. Sullivan and others to close the Pit, though well-meaning, are misguided. The Pit and those who frequent it do not pose any significant danger to the surrounding community, and the City Council was right to amend Sullivan’s original proposal and to focus on protecting Pit regulars rather than protecting Cambridge from them...
...recent murder provides no reason to close the Pit and prevent Cambridge residents from sitting there. Many of those who frequent the Pit have few other places to go. Homeless young people such as Nachtwey are made especially vulnerable because they lack access to a night-time shelter. Dispersing them during the day by closing the Pit would make them even less safe. Pushed out of the Pit, homeless youth might congregate in more isolated, less easily monitored areas where they would have little access to help or protection from local authorities...
...course, not all of those who frequent the Pit are homeless; many of the Pit regulars simply choose to meet there, listening to live bands amid the bustle of a busy city. Those young people have as much right to the public space of Harvard Square as any student. The Pit must be kept safe for them, for students and for all members of the Cambridge community...