Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question of whether marijuana is a dangerous menace or something less than that--even, perhaps, a kind of benign and unfairly persecuted folk medicine--suddenly dominates discussions of the great American drug habit. Last month voters in Arizona and California passed ballot propositions that legalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, a kind of backdoor quasi-legitimation alarming to the pot hawks, who fear that high-minded tolerance (pot as pain reliever, glaucoma salve, general angel of mercy) may become infectious and spread to the other states...
...users and now admit they can't stop. One prematurely wise senior voices disdain for "gumpy sophomores who think it's harmless." Some end up in rehab programs, which far more often than not fail initially with adolescents. The sad fact is that many will have a substance-abuse habit all their lives...
...Nicholson has been spying for the Russians. With the cold war over, the intelligence services of both nations are trying fitfully to cooperate on some matters of mutual interest, like terrorism and international crime. At the same time, as old enemies and uneasy friends, they probe each other by habit and inclination, looking for weak spots. Nicholson may have been one of them, and a potentially spectacular one at that. A branch chief in the CIA counterterrorism center, he is the highest ranking agency officer ever charged with espionage. He is also proof of something the intelligence community has long...
...trying to get people in the habit of using the Web as a source of information," says James E. Davis, lecturer of Chemistry 5 and head tutor of the department. "I'm trying to lower Webophobiacs into the game...
Driving without seeming to look at the road ahead is a habit for the men in blue--although it can be quite disturbing for those riding along...