Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jazz-guitarist father and a 14-year-old mother, Morgan was playing club dates in Los Angeles when he was still a teenager. He'd back up Billie Holliday or Josephine Baker at night, then go to high school during the day. By 17, he had himself a heroin habit. He received a stern lecture on the evils of using hard drugs from the Yardbird, who undercut his position by promptly sampling Morgan's stash. "Like it or no," Morgan says, "what he was saying was not nearly as loud as what he was doing...
...exit the Soviet Union is not necessary. But we should have independence in economic, cultural and political matters. Azerbaijan can feed itself, but it still owes the center 7 billion rubles. This dependence is a bad habit. Each region should take account of itself and develop a contractual relationship with Moscow. Now is the time to show we are an independent republic, and later our children will decide whether or not to leave the union altogether...
Nicaraguans are bound to resent niggardliness from the U.S. They feel that their proximity and the long years of damaging American involvement entitle them to go to the top of the aid list. The U.S. in recent years has had a bad habit of spending millions on wars but little on peace; yet the few millions Washington contributed to this election proved a far better investment than the hundreds of millions sent to the contras. U.S. help to the opposition during the election has raised high expectations that its victory will automatically bring a huge infusion...
...electric typewriter, but the script failed to make clear that he comes to work most mornings with an armful of thank-you notes, typed up the night before in his private study in the White House's second-floor residence -- the by-product of a 30-year habit of working in small strokes...
Until recently, new tobacco brands met little resistance. But target marketing has taken on an odious reputation as tobacco makers aim for the few groups that have been slow to kick the habit. The companies have long argued that they are selling a legal product to consumers capable of making their own choices, but as cigarette makers focus on younger and less-educated consumers, that argument becomes harder to support...