Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foreign policy. The U.S. drug habit generates $2 billion in revenues for Latin American thugs. Crackdowns severely strain relations...
Playing the same sport is an advantage that has enabled them to see each other at least once every day. But the brothers have made it a habit to spend time with each other off the courts. "I talked to him every day," George says...
Eric, now 18, estimates that in two years he spent $40,000 on crack. At first he supported his habit with $200 a week earned from an after-school job delivering pizzas to big tippers in Westwood. As his habit became more expensive, he began forging checks and filching money from the wallets of his divorced parents. In eleventh grade, he flunked all his classes but still continued his trips to Venice. "It was scary all the time now," Eric recalls. "I would sit in the van needing a hit, but couldn't stop looking out the window...
Political analysts chalked up the poor showing of Roh's party to overconfidence and its habit of fielding candidates on the basis of party standing rather than electability. The cloud of uncertainty produced by the election caused panic on the South Korean stock market, which plunged nearly 26 points, to 618.73, its largest one-day drop ever. But many South Koreans seemed pleased at the prospect of at last having a counterbalance to one-party rule. Said Han Sung Joo, a political science professor at Seoul's Korea University: "The government will just have to make the necessary concessions...
When she married Dukakis in 1963, Kitty had been taking diet pills for seven years, depending on her small, 5-mg dose of amphetamines to get her through the day. Eleven years later, her husband discovered her cache of pills, but her subsequent attempt to kick the habit failed. She finally succeeded in 1982 at a drug-rehabilitation center in Minnesota, although it was only this past summer that she bravely went public with the story of her 26-year addiction...