Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Experts believe that they have broken the building's habit of twisting in high winds and popping out its windows. To tame the tower, they installed 300 L-shaped steel reinforcement beams and a giant shock absorber consisting of 600 tons of lead and steel attached by springs on the 58th floor. Stronger tempered glass was installed in all 10,344 windows. The renovations cost $15 million, which helped run the building's total tab to more than $150 million, twice what the company had expected to pay when ground was broken...
...into the looser student routine that they left two years ago, but with minor differences. Stromberg, for instance, sits at his desk for 15 or 20 minutes a day, and writes down the qualities he'd like to see in himself, and the flaws he'd like to eliminate habit he picked up on his mission, and he saves all the little pieces of paper he's scribbled on to see how far he's come...
...side of a piece of paper and the benefits from completing the job on the other-and then feel ashamed of your irrational lethargy; or (c) picking an important, if unpleasant, chore and completing it the first thing every day. According to Bliss, that will soon break the procrastinating habit...
...voce expletives, four-letter words and hectoring commands: "Run! Run!" "Hit the ball. Hit the ball!" "Up! Up!" and, maddeningly above all for women partners, "Outta the way! I got it! I got it!" Even where the female partner is the more skilled, men seem to have a disconcerting habit of trying to remake her playing style to suit their own strengths and weaknesses...
...storm broke and lightning crackled all around. The one available umbrella shielded a television camera as Carter escorted the experts through 100 yards of mud to their bus. Commented Warnke, as he faced the three-hour ride back to Atlanta: "It has been very instructive, but not habit-forming...