Word: habitability
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Soviet psychiatrists have a nasty habit of declaring dissidents insane and shipping them off to mental hospitals...
...described White as a manic-depressive with intolerable pressures because of his heavily mortgaged house and his efforts to support a wife and baby from a fast-food stand. The defense made much of White's penchant for wolfing down junk food-Twinkies, Cokes, doughnuts, candy bars-a habit that, the defense claimed, exacerbated his depression and indicated a chemical imbalance in his brain...
...violence. They're lost in all the ridiculous and copious detail. Geoffrey Cowan promises to take us behind the scenes to the "backstage battle over sex and violence in television." Cowan has seen too many Barnaby Jones episodes for his own good. He's in the habit of telling you what happened first and then spending (read: wasting) 30 or 40 pages telling you why. By the time you get through the intricate details of whose wife was accompanying who on what vacation that got interrupted by what's his name's telephone call you're too bored to care...
...this noble gesture, Bavas won no applause, no commendations. Instead, HEW officials in Washington told him that it is illegal for a Government employee to turn down a pay increase; otherwise, they explained, some cost-conscious officials might make a habit of pressuring subordinates to do the same. HEW promptly raised his salary...
...program an involves the passing of program lore from one faculty member to another and from one student to another." "Case materials" are used in 80 per cent of the required courses in the MBA program. "We try to teach students not subjects and techniques but attitudes and habits, "James L. Heskitt, chairman of the program, says. Students trained in the case method get into the habit of making three decisions a day, and they carry the habit to the $25,000-a-year average starting jobs they take...