Word: habitability
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...gentle, inspiring revolution - but it has developed into a bad Philippine habit. Four months after Marcos fled the Philippines, a former political ally declared himself head of state and, with some military backing, took over the swank Manila Hotel. On the second night of that comic, two-day revolt, I held a cocktail party for visiting family members. Afterward, we climbed into the car and toured the revolution. My family enjoyed roaming the fortified hotel with machine-gun toting soldiers and opportunistic, barong-clad politicians wearing heavy gold jewelry. In the next three years, a string of coup attempts nearly...
...only the first among the seven, but also the brains behind the entire operation--smart enough to begin plotting the escape six months in advance and smart enough to ingratiate himself and his trusted companions into the right work duty on the right day. "Guards are creatures of habit," says Richard Coons, the forensic psychologist who evaluated Rivas during his 1994 trial for kidnapping and robbery. With someone like Rivas, who is "able to bide his time and watch," such habits proved disastrous...
...DOSE CAT SCAN The most promising of the new tests may be the low-dose CAT scan. It is especially popular with smokers and former smokers who want to know how much of a toll their habit has taken on their lungs. Studies have shown that the low-dose scan is superior to the traditional chest X ray both in speed and detection rate. Less than one minute of your time on the table produces detailed images of the lungs in tiny slices, increasing chances of detecting abnormalities that could be early signs of cancer or emphysema. Cost...
...Cancer Center in New York City, one of the nation's largest cancer hospitals. The move brought him closer to his two children, who live in Queens, and increased his salary almost six-fold--to nearly $1 million a year. It also meant the end of his long-time habit of bicycling to work...
...companies into sturdy profit centers. He first worked his way up the executive ranks of International Paper by boosting the quality of its products, shutting down marginal plants and investing heavily in others. While working at IP in the dark days of the late 1970s, O'Neill made a habit of visiting the plants of competitors overseas that were stealing market share, and then bringing back ways to beat them at their own game. In the late 1980s, he took over as CEO of Alcoa, a company that had just about given up on aluminum as a reliable line...