Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NATIONAL CONVENTIONS have had a habit of running wild--the idea of a people assembled has historically given them an aura of political legitimacy. A national assembly toppled the ancien regime in France, and it was a national convention to revise the Articles of Confederation that decided 200 years ago to start from scratch instead and create a whole new law for the land...
...criticism and gave a rambling response. Trying to be folksy, he slipped into personal irrelevancies. "We both have beautiful and interesting wives," he said. He claimed that he had first started jogging when visiting Mexico City in the 1960s. Then he made an appalling attempt to turn his running habit into a joke. The reason he had raced from the Palace of Fine Arts to his hotel room on that visit, he said, was because "in the midst of the FolklÓrico performance, I discovered that I was afflicted with Montezuma's revenge." Instead of laughing, those present...
...usually reserved and retiring Stevenson is especially concerned about deterioration in an area in which America has always excelled: technological progress. Says he: "The vanquished of World War II−Japan and Germany−have overtaken us. We and the British are ossified by habit, by powerful interests, and are losing our capacity to win in this highly competitive new environment. And if we can't win, we lose the source of our political authority." He urges universities, businesses and Government to enter into a partnership to improve technology. "Our most competitive industries are the most technology-intensive...
...personalized nature of physical examinations points out something else the clinics stress: health maintenance. By encouraging simple, routine check-ups and by charging only what people can pay, the clinics hope to break people of the costly habit of seeking medical attention only when their illnesses require extensive care...
...could not be a good poet because everything he wrote was a platitude. "This is the Romantic view of poetry, for in fact it requires a very great poet to make platitudes come alive, since they are sentiments we once felt but, through the dulling of our minds by habit, have ceased any longer to feel...