Word: habitability
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...After the '94 elections, a stunning event [he waves his arms for emphasis] we lost the Senate. Downtown they got into a habit of negotiating the principal bills directly, White House to leadership. The leadership on Gingrich's side even left out the Republican committee chairman and ranking members. You could end up with a 1,300-page bill that a great majority of us had never seen...
...Someone has to listen to all those anti-TV activists; it may as well be me. A typical comment from Joan Anderson, author of Getting Unplugged and Breaking the TV Habit: "TV is not a member of the family; it's a stranger. Would you let a stranger into your child's bedroom?" Amen...
Western Republicans are infuriated by Clinton's new habit of flying out to some picturesque site in the West and unilaterally declaring it a national monument with a sweep of his hand. "Environmental law has become an oxymoron. It just serves whatever angle the Democrats are pushing," complains James Buchal, a Portland lawyer and author of The Great Salmon Hoax. Property-rights advocates accuse the Administration of carrying out land grabs. A series of lawsuits has been filed challenging the designation of national monuments throughout the West, including the sequoia forest. And vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney has said...
...maintain, they argue, a strategy that denies the people their popularly elected president? (In this case, that would be Al Gore, who won November's election by about 330,000 votes but lost in the electoral count 271-267). The quick answer to that question? Habit and vested interests...
...habit of disrupting social expectations, combined with her recent lecture series in the U.S. on the concept of art and her sexuality, it is almost tempting to label this controversial literary personality the 21st century's Oscar Wilde. But there's a tremendous problem with this potential classification, for Wilde could write and Winterson cannot. She may have personality, but The Powerbook certainly doesn...