Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fond of "reading" for my classes with the TV on and muted. That way, whenever something interesting comes on the screen (like a touchdown or the opening credits of JAG), I can turn the sound on and put the book down. It is because of this nasty habit that I need you to tune my television set to the Science Center network: 24 hours a day of high-level physics lectures on tape, with videos of baboons copulating during prime time and Tom Synder on at 12:30 a.m. (the lowest-rated of SCTV's programs). Again, some would...
...long as she can remember, Candace Scott, 35, has suffered from a consuming addiction. Every spare cent goes to feed her habit, and her husband is hooked just as hard. O.K., so collecting items related to Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general turned President, is not as harmful as, say, crack cocaine. But it is now an obsession turbocharged by technology...
...become a habit in Pakistan that whenever a ruler's popularity disintegrates, he or she begins waving the scimitar of Islam. Never mind that not once since Pakistan became a nation 51 years ago has this noisy brandishing of faith ever worked to bolster the leader's popularity. Now, with Pakistan ostracized after its nuclear tests and on the edge of economic collapse, Prime Minister Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif is reviving the old custom of trying to make the Islamic Republic of Pakistan even more Islamic than it already...
...imperative that Pakistan shed its tradition of corrupt government, but few are convinced that Nawaz Sharif is the man to do this. His family is one of the richest in Pakistan, yet its members fork out only a pittance in taxes. The armed forces, which have a habit of intervening in Pakistani politics, are displeased with the Prime Minister, and some analysts fear that Nawaz Sharif's actions may increase friction between the pro-Western secularists and religious extremists within the ranks. Warns Maleeha Lodi, a newspaper editor and former ambassador to Washington: "Nawaz Sharif is trying to wrap himself...
...trouble learning his part as a bereft father. He doesn't know which to give the upper hand to--sadness or anger--and whether it's more manly to suffer in silence, drink in hand, or rage out loud, with his finger on a trigger. "This was the fatal habit of Polonius: to stand in the shadows, listening, peering at life with half an eye, letting others take the risk of living and despising them...