Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bureau chief, witnessing the wrenching decline of the American automobile industry. Then it was back to Japan, with his wife and two of their five daughters, again as Tokyo bureau chief in 1978. While in Tokyo, Reingold developed a penchant for typing his files standing up. He claims the habit encourages him to write succinctly and, of course, to keep on his toes...
...could read words, Gould found he could learn scores most easily while listening simultaneously to TV shows or the roar of a vacuum cleaner. Always, his remarkable gifts were shadowed by a perversity that drove him to torture the works he disliked (notably, most of Mozart), and by a habit of compulsive experimentation that made him treat even human voices as little more than sounds. Inspiringly, Gould saw music as his world; chillingly, he also read the world as nothing more than music...
Anniversaries are television's most annoying bad habit. No TV series, it seems, can pass a milestone ending in zero (Barbara Walters' 50th special, Sesame Street's 20th season) without leading us on a forced march down Memory Lane. Now, saints preserve us, the 50th anniversary of TV itself has arrived -- at least by one measure. On April 20, 1939, RCA formally introduced the modern system of TV broadcasting at the New York World's Fair. One could just as plausibly trace TV's origin back to 1927, when the nation's first experimental TV stations went...
Some things are just habit for the Crimson: Put nine men on the field, give up a couple of runs early, then try to make the dramatic comeback...
...will be built in the District and more beds will be available in a federal prison in Maryland. Drug treatment will gain only 300 beds instead of the 1,040 the city asked for. Will Bennett's battle plan do much to help the nation's capital kick the habit? Given the czar's imperiousness and the swirl of rumors surrounding Barry, whose friendship with an accused drug dealer is under investigation, that is far from certain...