Word: habitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these may be full of hot air. Modem technology has a habit of improving beyond what anyone thought possible, and satellite's competitors--digital phone lines and cable modems--are getting cheaper and better, making it unlikely that most city dwellers will opt for satellite or blimp connections anytime soon. How well ventures like Teledesic, Globalstar and Iridium will do depends largely on the answer to one question: Are they offering something radically new, or just another incremental feature for an existing technology...
...grandfather had this rather bad habit of dropping in with foreign visitors," Eisenhower said. "I will, of course, never forget this encounter. It was the genesis of how I got interested in Russian affairs...
...earnest questing, Lindbergh was capable of a shocking naivete and obtuseness--or, many thought, something worse. He had a sinister habit of thinking in terms of racial superiorities and inferiorities. During the late '30s, he led the isolationist "America First" forces that sought to keep the U.S. out of European war. Although he undertook an essentially patriotic mission to evaluate Nazi aviation for U.S. authorities, he seemed to make excuses for Hitler, even in the face of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 and other evidence of the Nazis' murderous intentions toward the Jews. In October 1938, a month before Kristallnacht...
...become customary over the last few years, the men were led by co-captain Scott Muoio, who came in at a time of 26:07. Women's captain Margaret Schotte continued her habit of pacing the women's team, as she was the third overall finisher in a time...
Those of you night owls in the habit of shooting the late-night breeze with Kirkland House security guards are gonna have to change your ways this year...