Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Englishman's truly distinctive disease is his cherished habit of waiting until the 13th hour," wrote British Historian Arnold Toynbee last November. Events have since proved him right. It took a serious pound scare and a disastrous inflation rate of 26% to prod Britain's Labor government into coming up with what Prime Minister Harold Wilson called "a plan to save our country" from a "general economic catastrophe of incalculable proportions" (TIME, July 21). Last Tuesday, after two days of passionate, often bitter debate, the House of Commons approved the government's emergency package by a vote...
...Inflation and recession are two reasons for the slump: the company's printing and paper costs have skyrocketed, and guests are spending less at the hotels and clubs. But the troubles also reflect Hefner's habit of plunging into new ventures without doing any in-depth advance planning, then losing interest but still insisting on making all the big decisions himself. As a result, PEI is saddled with businesses ranging from modeling agencies and limousine services to bar trinkets, for which it is only now beginning to develop a coherent marketing strategy. Recognizing that the operation must...
...Kicked Habit. Ford says that it intends to "defend the suit vigorously"; presumably, it will contend that other executives have operated in the same environment without becoming alcoholics. Brennan's weightiest charge is that, although Ford had helped other alcoholic employees in the U.S. get treatment, he was never even told that such help was available. After a long struggle, Brennan kicked the drinking habit-so successfully that he is now business manager of an alcoholic-treatment center in Lake Orion, near Detroit...
...trying to make a list the other day of the number of democracies left in the world, and I could only get up to 21 out of 150-plus countries. I wonder how you see democracy in this world. Is it a minority habit that is contracting...
Absent-minded on a summer afternoon, you could walk right by it without knowing. You might not have noticed the Fenway nun, black and in black habit, waiting with her radio till the game ends, when she'll get to her feet with the donation basket already full of quarters to make it look good. And you could miss the Fenway paraphernalia vendors--booths on a city street in Kenmore Square are nothing special. going left from Brookline Ave. to Lansdowne, you wouldn't know that the huge wall on your right, grimy the color of the warehouse and shop...