Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many people look back on Jan. 11, 1964, as a pivotal date in their lives. On that day U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry warned about the deadly dangers of tobacco in a blockbuster report. Frightened smokers promptly resolved to give up the habit; some scared souls stubbed out cigarettes on the spot. Last week the Federal Government marked the 25th anniversary of that first alarm with a new Surgeon General's report that charts the progress in the war against tobacco. The past quarter-century has seen "a revolution in smoking behavior," declared C. Everett Koop, the current Surgeon General...
CAPTION: KICKING THE HABIT...
...fall into the habit of foreign borrowing to cover our deficits...
...attempt to freeze out any eggs hiding inside. Despite these measures, a second infestation was found just before Christmas, prompting another visit by the exterminator. Officials in charge of the anti-bug offensive hope the library is now free of the little louses, so that scholars can resume the habit of scratching their heads in thought...
...power. In Soviet Armenia a monstrous earthquake killed some 55,000 people. That too was a natural disaster, but its high casualty count, owing largely to the construction of cheap high-rise apartment blocks over a well-known fault area, illustrated the carelessness that has become humanity's habit in dealing with nature...