Word: habit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's tennis team has made a habit lately of sending back some impressive results from distant points west. The week before last there were some outstanding individual efforts at a tournament in Los Angeles. And this weekend, it was a team victory over three other college squads, two of them nationally ranked, in Minneapolis...
Still, consistency can be a bona fide virtue, if a small one. Consistency in public life. Consistency in private. The consistency of principle, of philosophy, habit, appearance, of behavior toward subordinates, lovers and friends. To know where a leader stands is a major test of his leadership. That, and to measure where someone stands against the spot he swore to stand on, so as to determine if the person is dependable, reliable. Banks and dogs share this virtue...
...smacks of prurience, and Cottle then resembles a small boy titillated by a naughty word. For example, he inquired of an effervescent Debbie Reynolds: "Let me ask you a naive question. Why did you send your husband Eddie Fisher over to console Elizabeth Taylor?" He also has an annoying habit of asking such unanswerable questions as "Who are you?" When Milton Berle confessed to once wanting to kill himself, Cottle replied: "I know what it means, but what does it mean...
DESPITE THE VALIANT EFFORTS of international organizations like the World Health Organization, the tobacco firms seem unlikely to start policing their own operation. For every dollar spent trying to educate Third World smokers about the health consequences of their habit, the tobacco companies spend $10 to $20 on advertising. The ACSR labeled Philip Morris' response to a shareholder resolution last year concerning the company's activities in the Third World "callous and misleading." And the governments of victimized Third World nations also offer little hope for a solution--many have yet to recognize the health hazards that await, and where...
...supertanker. It takes effort to change the course of such a ship." But even while counseling patience, he is counting on his image as a decisive leader to win understanding in Washing an. Already the Japanese bureaucracy is complaining about the speed with which Nakasone demands action, a habit that he is said to have learned from one of his idols, the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Having convinced the skeptical South Koreans of his good will, Nakasone may find the going easier with a politician as amiable as Ronald Reagan...