Word: habitability
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...amiable 30-year-old Malaysian with bloodshot eyes and a two-pack-a-day habit - knows what that means in the real world. As the jeep bumps down the earth road leading from the army camp, his mobile phone squawks. He answers, grunts a few times, then puts the phone down with a grimace. "I have to go to Indonesia tomorrow...
...Which was one of the things that got Lucent into trouble in the first place. Eager to keep impressing Wall Street with steroidal growth numbers and counting all manner of nascent start-ups and emerging companies among its potential customers, Lucent apparently developed a habit over the years of goosing up its sales with so-called vendor-financing arrangements, in which Lucent would lend customers the money to buy equipment and sometimes install...
...whom legislate and enforce our drug laws], a drug problem is a problem of the individual. And punishment, the harsher the better, forces individuals to address their problems. Then there's a whole different model that recognizes drug addiction as an addiction like alcohol and cigarettes. It's a habit that's incredibly hard to break, and in order to succeed, most people need a mix of support and intolerance...
...police have talked to Hood, who has changed her phone and pager numbers several times recently, out of habit, she says, not because she is hiding. She says on that Friday night, Derwin Brown talked to her about handling his press. She says she does not understand why the Browns or others would suggest she knows more than she is telling. "How could I signal the killer? How do you do that? I don't know anything about killers," she says. She says she admired Derwin as well as his wife. And even though Hood was busy with charity work...
...doubts that without foxhunting, farmers will still need to keep the fox population under control. When they're not being adorable, foxes have a habit of invading farms and killing all sorts of other furry and feathery friends. So the farmers will be required to go out and shoot them instead, a means of execution less colorful but no less cruel than beagle munching. Without foxhunting, moreover, thousands of hounds will have to be euthanized, their reason for existence as evanescent as the morning mist in Shropshire. All the foxhunters need to do is film the mass killing of beagles...