Word: habitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard women's basketball team kicked off the New Year with some old habits. Fortunately, winning is not a habit the Crimson wants to break...
...fingerprints). Sources say the relative weakness of the case was the primary reason the district attorney chose not to seek the death penalty. Still, few expect Markhasev to receive much sympathy from a jury in such a well-publicized case and with such a sympathetic victim. Markhasev's reported habit of making incriminating statements to his jailers will probably not help either...
This should be unsurprising to anyone who has followed the career of the richest billionaire in Texas. Since he founded his company in a college dorm room, Dell has made a habit of spotting trends when they are still mere suggestions. Maybe that's why his company's stock has jumped 20,000% since 1990. Four years ago, when the Web was just a strand, Dell made his first online purchase (a T shirt). The idea of selling computers online...
...think I picked up the free-stuff habit from my childhood in a medical family. Pharmaceutical companies were constantly giving my dad, a pulmonologist, free samples and promotional gifts. As a consequence, to this day I have trouble paying for drugs; I forget to buy Sudafed, thinking we have lots at home. Too bad home is back in DC. For what it would cost to mail the free Sudafed samples from my parents' closet, I've learned to utilize the CVS in the Square...
Fishmongers, rejoice. If the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have their way, the eating of fish on Fridays may once again become a habit for American Catholics. When the hierarchy meets this week in Washington, it is likely to approve a one-year study on how to revive the old penitential practice of abstaining from meat each Friday. The bishops' pro-life committee wants the dietary regimen to serve as a silent protest against the "culture of death," especially legalized abortion and euthanasia. No meat on Fridays was long a strict church rule, observed by millions "under pain...