Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sadly, I cannot accept your request as to do so would compromise the anonymity necessary to be Harvard's most trusted advice source. In addition, I suffer from stage fright and cannot bear public speaking. And finally, I hear that you Harvard students are in the habit of protesting your speakers. No thank you, ingrates. After all I've done...
...culture. Quickly produced with their sequels released even more efficiently, they keep the shelves of the nation's video rental stores amply stocked. The Indians have not only forgotten how to play baseball, but also how to be funny. In the end the laughter comes from force of habit, rather than genuine comedy...
Although Donnelly is charming and personable in My Astonishing Self, the unnecessary slowness of his speech and his habit of darting his eyes around the audience in a nervous fashion are distracting...
Above all VanAmburg cautions students to usemoderation in interpreting the numbers HDSprovides. "Generally I think the best idea is touse the information, but don't radically changeyour eating habit because of a severe phobia ofthe four grams of fat in the lasagna," she says...
...Moscow since 1985 without detection by his CIA colleagues? Seated at a table below the opening of the curve, Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey parried the questions with candor, defensiveness and anger. Yes, there had been warning signs that Ames might be a problem: a drinking habit, a foreign-born wife, a lavish life-style that far exceeded his $69,843 annual salary. Yes, suspicions should have deepened when Ames showed some signs of deception on polygraph tests...