Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Crimson opens the season against Rhode Island, it must continue last season's trend of scoring early while eliminating another habit-the inability to finish...
When the Crimson opens the season against Rhode Island, it must continue last season's trend of scoring early while eliminating another habit-the inability to finish...
Finishing first is getting to be a habit for Pulitzer prizewinner and Grammy glutton WYNTON MARSALIS. Now he's going for the bronze. The town fathers of Marciac, France, have just unveiled a life-size likeness of the trumpeter. Every year Marsalis and jazzophiles the world over converge on this hamlet in southwestern France, inflating its 1,200 population to 125,000 for a festival in August. Marsalis explains the appeal: "The people are soulful and humble." To prove his affection, he's composed the 90-minute Marciac Suite. Mayor Jean-Louis Guilhaumon certainly proved his. Artist Daphne du Barry...
Touting no show in particular, the ABC campaign tries to convince viewers that it's okay to indulge heavily in the "harmless habit" of TV-watching, especially now that the fall season is on its way and the network desperately needs higher ratings. But the ads, trying so hard to bring an ironic hipness to the medium, are as a whole deeply contradictory and display nothing more than the network's own anxiety about the future of television. "TV is good" may be the official theme of the campaign, but there's little positive about the phrase on those yellow...
...reinstated goodies to oil and gas, mining, real estate and countless other interests, tax rates went up. Just as other countries were imitating our reform because they knew that capital and talent would otherwise migrate to nations with lower tax rates, we got back into the habit of listening to the narrow interests and passing the bill along to the average taxpayer...