Word: habitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the habit of responding to its crises by lurching into emergency rooms and pleading for the painkiller first. Some important part of the American mind has gone over into a territory of denial and evasion...
That Lynn Bremer is an attorney with a good job was not enough to keep her from developing a cocaine habit. The fact that she was pregnant was not enough to make her drop it. So when her daughter tested positive at birth for the presence of drugs in her urine, health officials in Muskegon County, Mich., took the child into temporary custody. But, to Bremer's astonishment, there was more. The county prosecutor stepped in to charge her with a felony: delivery of drugs to her newborn child. The means of delivery? Her umbilical cord...
...Health Equity Act." Raising money, since women have less experience at it, is also harder. Says former Republican National Committee co-chairwoman Maureen Reagan, an indefatigable fund raiser: "Women still feel they ought to say thank you for their paychecks, so it's hard to get them in the habit of making campaign contributions and doing it for more than spare change." Nonetheless, fund-raising operations -- notably EMILY's List (Early Money Is Like Yeast), the Hollywood Women's Political Committee and the Women's Campaign Fund -- are slowly changing the gender deficit. EMILY's List, founded by Ellen Malcolm...
Wong said she hopes the project will "get people in the habit of thinking about recycling, and maybe say `oh wait' before they throw something out and remember the recycling box at the bottom of the entryway...
...carries well over 230 lbs. on his 6-ft. 3-in. frame. During a rare period of exertion in Florida, he suffers a warning heart attack. In Pennsylvania he discovers that Nelson has skimmed more than $200,000 from the family business to pay for a cocaine habit...