Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...listeners wondering what he really means, has yet to define what he calls "responsible" behavior at home. He should lead by example instead of watching public opinion polls and reflecting the mood of the moment. And though his hesitancy to impose a tax cut marks a departure from his habit of appeasing the pollsters, it's ironic that he may be missing his best opportunity to give the economy a dose of good medicine...
Jimmy Carter has been his own calamity for so long that it is hard to get out of the habit of living with disappointment and near disaster. But last week, when the President stepped down from Air Force One at the end of his European voyage, he had not only staved off a further collapse of American leadership in the world but had also shored up for a time the cause of the democracies...
...deepening recession is closing automobile plants; unemployment has gone to 7.8%. Inflation has subverted the traditional apparatus of American hope and self-improvement: hard work and saving. The nation's allies have developed the habit of treating it with public condescension and private contempt. Voters face a choice for President in November that leaves many of them shaking their heads. An uneasy suspicion has formed that the U.S. is about to leave the sweeping interstate highway it has cruised along for more than a generation, and return to a two-lane blacktop. Or worse. That is a heretical direction...
...runaway proportions. According to government figures, there are now 3 million addicts, nearly one in every twelve Iranians. Reason: in the 16 chaotic months since the fall of the Shah, police enforcement has been spotty at best, and narcotics rings have been able to operate at will. Thus the habit that was once peculiar to Iran's upper classes, and gripped members of the Shah's own family, has filtered down through Iranian society. Says a high school teacher in Tehran, appalled at the extent of addiction among his students: "Heroin and opium were the only commodities that...
...come a long way, flying nun. From that silly television series about a novice who had an airborne habit, Sally Field landed in a serious role as Norma Rae, the Southern mill hand with a heart of steel and an eye for her union organizer. Fresh from that Academy Award performance, Field is at work in the South again in an even more down-to-earth assignment. In Back Roads, now shooting in Mobile, Ala., she plays a hooker who falls in love with a down-and-out boxer and decides to travel cross-country with him. If her roles...