Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little training as I did." Thirty-four years old, the rookie coach started running the Marathons when he entered Harvard Law School in 1968. Although he admits he does not really enjoy the race, preferring a shorter, faster pace, he still runs "out of force of habit." This year, Babington said "my motivation dropped to zero--after two miles I wanted to drop out." But the graduate of Williams College hung on, encouraged by Crimson track stars Ellen Hart and Darlene Beckford, who greeted him with sponges at various points throughout the race. Although he said he "did not enjoy...
...series of intellectual games that strip away, rather than analyze, the meaning of words. "There is no history in Argentina," Naipaul concludes. "There are no archives; there are only graffiti, polemics and school lessons." He goes on to find history "less an attempt to record and understand than a habit of reordering inconvenient facts; it is a process of forgetting." Naipaul understands that Eva Peron, the brunette who dyed her hair blonde, whose autobiography is ghost-written to conceal an illegitimate birth, is the appropriate symbol for a nation which has forgotten its beginnings...
...change is not based on the University's threat that "if one does not come the other two will turn down the offer." Whether this is true or not, we can not get into a habit of reacting to the statements of an administration which has misled us in the past. We should instead make our own independent assessment of the situation...
BOSTON vs. PITTSBURGH: Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Next? If you have to miss any Bruin play-off games, this is your big opportunity. Penguins can surprise but won't, while Bruins have kicked the habit of chocking in opening rounds since their 1975 disaster against Chicago. Four Harry Sinden yawns...
Nonsmokers have been fighting for years to get smoking banned from public places. They argue that the habit subjects nonsmokers to unpleasant odors and eye irritation. Smokers have countered that as long as they are not hurting anyone except themselves they have a right to do as they please. That reply has now been undermined by researchers at the University of California at San Diego who found that long-term exposure to cigarette smoke causes measurable lung damage in people who do not smoke...