Word: habitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Epps said he did not remember specific incidents of addressing students in foreign languages. "I do know smatterings of languages," he said. "I think that [greeting students in other languages] is not a habit of mine...
This is no regular army, with an orderly command and a habit of obedience. All but one or two of the top officers are professionals from the old Yugoslav People's Army, but the ranks are filled by farmers, laborers and shopkeepers fighting for their homes. Many live no more than a few minutes' walk from the front lines. They will not be persuaded to give up these homes and move again...
First-year council representative Cynthia D. Johnson '96 echoed Beys's comments, saying she was tired with the in-house bickering. "Do we make it a habit of being in at least one controversy per meeting?" Johnson asked the council...
First, knee-jerk iconoclasm. The habit of a lifetime is hard to break. The very phrase "the President's economic plan" starts the facial nerves twitching into the formation of a cynical sneer. As proposals for reform of everything under the sun come cascading out of the Administration, the first instinct is to assume there is something wrong with each of them...
When I was a first year in college, I planned to study political science. I took a required full-year core course in literature, and the professor got into the annoying habit of giving me C's and D's on my papers. Finally, on the eighth and final essay of the year. I got an A-. I felt--rightly--that I had acquired a new skill, that I had learned to excel in an area in which I had been close to failure. Exulting in this experience, I chose to study literature. Of course, my instructor could have given...