Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record courtesy call was finally arranged in 1989. So anxious was Barnard, the intelligence chief, about the meeting that seconds before the two men were to shake hands, he knelt down to fix Mandela's clumsily tied shoes. (Prisoners were forbidden shoelaces, and Mandela was long out of the habit of tying them...
...Stark, a retired cabbie, has a smoking habit that cost taxpayers more than $20,000 last year, and this year the meter is still running. The 53-year-old Miami resident smoked three packs a day for almost four decades; now he has emphysema and needs bottled oxygen to breathe. Medicaid-i.e., taxpayers-foots the bill for his respiratory problems ($400 a month for oxygen, $18,000 for a nine-day hospital stay last year). Despite the tab he's already rung up, Stark still puffs his way through half a pack a day: "I just have this unbelievable...
Whatever that bill's ultimate fate, the tobacco wars are sure to drag on like a bad habit. This week several major health organizations and a bipartisan group of Governors will publicly rededicate themselves to the fight, waged with sin taxes, lawsuits, and no-smoking areas. Yet some legal experts doubt that the the Medicaid-reimbursement suits will be the decisive new weapon. Says Stephen Sugarman, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley: "My feeling is that a lot of these untried methods have a dubious likelihood of success." But as any nicotine addict knows, when people want...
...band members-singer Darius Rucker, guitarist Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and drummer Sonefeld-got together at the University of South Carolina in Columbia in the mid-1980s. Rucker likes to sing after taking a shower and, thanks to his loud voice and the dorm's thin walls, his habit became well known-and, surprisingly, well liked. Says Bryan, who lived down the hall: "I'd hear him and think, 'He's got a really great voice.'" Bryan was learning to play the guitar at the time, and pretty soon the two were performing cover tunes down at Pappy...
Generals in the Russian army don't usually voice such opinions, but Lebed has made a habit of it, and his bluntness about the state of Russia is one reason he has become a rising favorite among nationalists and the military. In a recent survey, some 70% of officers said they would prefer Lebed as Defense Minister instead of Pavel Grachev, who has botched the Chechen war and faces accusations of corruption. Lebed also appeals to centrists who detest both Yeltsin and ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. If he could count on the support of all these groups, Lebed would make...