Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That will require much more research. One problem: single-shot railguns like the Los Alamos-Livermore machine must be painstakingly rebuilt after each firing. The projectiles also have an annoying habit of breaking apart when they leave the gun barrel. But the remarkable possibilities - high-speed guns of almost every kind that can shoot through practically anything - ensure continued research, financed jointly by the Departments of Defense and Energy...
Moore, at first recognizable and likeable as TV's Mary Richards, pulls off a difficult, unsympathetic role with complete authority. She never flinches, and at long last she neutralizes those dreadful movies she made in the Sixties (Change of Habit, etc.) Sutherland, so erratic he's sometimes brilliant and sometimes awful, is perfect here, understated but with multiple dimensions to his soft-spoken character. They're all perfect, but I have a clear favorite--young Hutton. He's so confused, so pained, intelligent and vulnerable, I ached for him. Since I never read the book, I spent most...
...have been frustrated in their efforts to organize workers at other Japanese facilities in the U.S. The U.A.W. complained to the National Labor Relations Board, charging that Honda's dress code was being used to block union organizing efforts. The U.A.W. also objects to Hon a's habit of calling its employees "associates," complaining that this is intended to blur labor-management distinctions in the workers' minds...
...didn't do a hell of a lot of socializing outside of high school. They arrive, well, inexperienced. Extreme excellence is abnormal in most high schools; you get excluded. So when they get a girlfriend, hey, they want to hold on and tell everybody. It becomes kind of a habit. I guess things are freer at a liberal arts school in general, and that would go hand-in-hand with the social atmosphere...
...There have been times when I think this isn't what I should be doing, I should be using my time for something else," she says. "In the end, however, I stick with it, out of habit partly, but I really like the people and the competition...