Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best-seller list. Brock, who works ; for the conservative magazine American Spectator, depicts Hill as a left-wing feminist, a woman of "radical views and inflamed sensitivities," who is also a working-world bumbler pushed by affirmative action into jobs she was unequipped to handle. Brock has a bad habit of raising a conjecture on one page only to restate it as a fact on the next. But his close examination of FBI records, the sworn testimony of Hill's witnesses and his interviews with people who knew (and mostly disliked) Hill, while they may be one-sided, turn...
...richest self-made billionaire in history and was, until recently, the most eligible bachelor in America (last month he became engaged to Melinda French, 28, a midlevel executive in charge of Microsoft's desktop-publishing business). Though Gates is famous for his lack of pretension, his habit of flying in coach class and his easy accessibility, he can also be brash, imperious and brutally blunt. He has been known to publicly dress down his managers, and more than once has reduced fresh-out-of-college employees to near tears by berating their thoughtful presentations at staff meetings with such withering...
Nobody disputes Gergen's talents as a politician. Close associates say he is % "constantly pulse taking" -- measuring the attitudes of his co-workers, his allies and the country. Gergen's fans say this habit helps explain his ability to move easily in a wide circle of public figures, policymakers and journalists. His detractors say it has led him to switch alliances with alarming expedience...
...precisely Schama's habit of flaunting standard historical practices of study that has often embroiled him in debates over the quality and accuracy of his scholarship...
...NASA projects have had a habit of taking one or two decades to come to fruition," Melnick says. "This experiment is intended to show that NASA can get back to what it was doing in the 1960s...