Word: habitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus evaporated the primary reason for the economic war against Cuba. The United States continues to enforce it, partly out of habit and partly our of a stubborn sense of national pride. But these are hardly justifications for major elements of U.S. policy. As a result, the government now claims it maintains the embargo in order to coerce Castro to hold free elections and develop a free market economy...
...mother was the third of 10 children from four fathers -- she never knew her own. When she was 15 she had her first son Lorenzo, then Victor, then Yummy and eventually five more. She dropped out of 10th grade, found an apartment, went on welfare and nursed a crack habit. For a while she tried living with Yummy's father Robert Akins, who was convicted of drug and weapons charges. They soon split because he had "a rather angry and hot temper," she told a social worker...
...lead. With new Simpson revelations ever scanter, the connected tale of his longtime friend A.C. Cowlings has moved to the fore. Last month Cowlings was described as a gofer to an alleged Los Angeles cocaine kingpin, whom he improbably thanked in court papers for helping him end a freebasing habit...
...competition has grown so fierce for two reasons: the pool of potential new customers is shrinking at the same time America's plastic habit is growing. Since 1984, outstanding charges rung up on bank cards have swollen from $53 billion to $239 billion. "At some banks, 50% to 60% of their equity is based on the credit-card business," says industry watchdog McKinley. Analysts say that although no more than 20% of all purchases are currently made with plastic, the possibilities for growth are enormous. Some card vendors have already moved into such traditional cash domains as movie theaters...
...same time, he seemed to be stepping up his drug habit, including smoking the white pipe. A week after the Bop executions, he was seen staggering around while on assignment at a Mandela rally in Johannesburg. Later he crashed his car into a suburban house and was thrown in jail for 10 hours on suspicion of drunken driving. His superior at Reuter was furious at having to go to the police station to recover Carter's film of the Mandela event. Carter's girlfriend, Kathy Davidson, a schoolteacher, was even more upset. Drugs had become a growing issue in their...