Word: habit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first thing necessary for a happy progress in business, is prudence or discretion . This, as it relates to trade, is an habit of mind enabling us to conduct our affairs in the wisest and best manner; or, in other words, it is pursuing the proper end by the best means, and in the fittest time. It is not that serpentine craft, which lies in wait to captivate the unwary, impose upon the credulons, and over-reach the weak understanding, and which teaches men to increase their wealth by injustice and fraud. God has given to no man superior wisdom...
...strong links to the army, government and party, he is in a position to rise still higher, in spite of his personal crudeness. A man who loves spicy food and hot chili peppers as much as he despises table manners, Li was once addicted to opium. Since breaking the habit, he has become a heavy cigarette smoker...
Streets for People, A primer for Americans by Bernard Rudofsky. Illustrated. 351 pages. Doubleday. $14.95. A U.S. architect, engineer and enraged gadfly, Rudofsky thinks American city streets are now and always have been ugly, dirty and unfit for human habitation; and he offers fascinating pictures, mainly from Europe, to show how things could be improved. Rudofsky's pet hates: noise, cars, haste, uniformity, ugliness, greed and his fellow countrymen's habit of suggesting that criticism is unpatriotic. What he wants more of and thinks feasible are steps, arcades, automobile-free streets, covered sidewalks, plazas suitable for strolling...
...Caius is a French physician in the play whose accents, mannerisms and character are constantly ridiculed, and whose energy is one of the play's driving comic forces. He had a habit, selon Terry Hands, the director, of kissing those he presumed to be his friends on both checks. The trouble was that all his friends were Englishmen, or normal height, and he was about 4'10". Hence to reach each check he had to hop, and his helloes and good-byes became increasingly more hilarious sight gags...
Canada will continue to be the world's main supplier for the next few years, but enough new sources will be opened up by the mid-1970s to reduce the leverage of the Ontario unionists, who have a habit of striking at the expiration of each three-year contract. Inco has acquired concessions in Guatemala and Indonesia. The French firm of Le Nickel is mining in New Caledonia. Most important, recent discoveries show that Western Australia may some day rival Ontario as a "nickel province." For the moment, however, anyone who has a source of nickel can make...