Word: habit
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...later computers, he continued pounding out copy on his beloved Royal manual. A blindingly fast typist, he would write one perfect paragraph per page and then rearrange the order of the pages until he got the story structure right. One of his few concessions to modern technology was his habit of wearing airport-style antinoise earphones when he was writing on deadline. It was during one such occasion in 1977, while he was writing a crash cover on Uganda's Idi Amin, that Bill's wife Genevieve Wilson-Smith, then a TIME reporter-researcher, gave birth to their daughter Caroline...
Lovett's favorite characters are "the cowboys down in Texas," as he sings in North Dakota, who "look across the border/ To learn the ways of love." But they never do learn. They are in the habit of hearing women say no or goodbye. The lost soul in All My Love Is Gone limns a broken triangle in words as simple as heartbreak: "She was angry/ He was free/ She loved him/ Then she left me." In She's Already Made Up Her Mind, a bereft man needs a friend to "sail with me out to that ocean deep...
George Bush and Ed Rollins have never enjoyed an easy relationship. As Vice President, Bush despised the Republican political consultant's habit of dumping on g.o.p. candidates who performed poorly in public. Two years ago, Bush tried to have Rollins fired after he urged Republican congressional candidates by fax to "oppose the President" and his support for a 1990 tax increase. Four months ago, when Bush needed to shore up his political position, he hired Rollins' wife rather than the veteran White House operative. Relations began to warm three weeks ago when, according to a senior Administration official, Rollins sent...
...father, as some disgruntled former associates and relatives claim. He also seems a long way from the rocker who scandalized the world by admitting he had experimented with LSD, although there's no denying his repeated run-ins with the law over marijuana. Whether McCartney has given up that habit is debatable. He admits to only one vice: drinking Johnnie Walker Red Label Scotch and Classic Coke. "Four, and I'm anybody's," he jokes to friends...
...first year in office, Rudenstine has devised a masterly scheme designed "to bring the institution to gether... to get everybody in the habit of thinking of everyone else's problems...