Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sometimes he gets too tight," Matthew Blair says. "He's best when he's relaxed before a game. He's got a real habit of yawning when he's nervous. He just yawns and yawns...
...their employees stay away from drugs. Says Capital Cities/ABC President Daniel Burke: "I consider drugs damn dangerous. I believe that my responsibility is such that my position against drugs has to be clearly understood by everyone who works under my direction." If companies can help employees kick the drug habit, the effort will pay dividends to business--and society--that cannot be measured in dollars and cents...
...seamy side of company life came to light in October 1984, when two employees were arrested late one evening for selling marijuana to an undercover policeman. President Peter Cherry then discovered that drugs were being peddled in the company's stock room. One woman employee with an unmanageably expensive habit had allegedly become a parking-lot prostitute during breaks. Within three weeks, 20 workers who were accused of taking or selling drugs quit or were fired. Says Cherry: "It was like Pandora's box was opened. We were stunned...
...about 3,500 calories a week, the equivalent of six to eight hours of strenuous bicycling or singles tennis. The Harvard men who worked out that much had half the risk of death of those who did little or no exercise. Moreover, the study showed that a lifetime habit of engaging in energetic activity three to four times a week could reduce the negative health effects of cigarette smoking or high blood pressure. It even partly offset an inherited tendency toward early death...
Coles has a nettlesome habit of segueing into awe at the exact moment that analysis is desperately needed. He devotes 22 pages to a stoical chicano girl named Marty, whose father and brother were killed by a drunk driver. Writing of Marty and another brave child, Coles declares, "One can only try to fathom how children like those two have managed so far to do as they've done. One thereby nudges theory toward human experience, hoping that the latter brings the former to life, and the former helps arrive at a persistent, comprehensible aspect of the human scene...