Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cornell, where the Ithacans are incapable of playing a sport on anything that doesn't grow grass or freeze, losing has become a habit. After five blacks boycotted the squad last month to protest an alleged coaches' quota on the number of blacks in the starting lineup, any chance Cornell had of doing anything vanished...
Liquor is still the king of business gifts, but dozen bottle cases have been replaced by gift packaged single bottles. The same moderation seems to be spreading to the old habit of sending Christmas cards to customers and coworkers. Not surprisingly, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. will send no cards this year. Ogilvy & Mather, the advertising agency, is not distributing employee address lists within the company. Chairman Jock Elliott figures that if everyone in the agency's 755 employee Manhattan office sent every co-worker a 250 Christmas card (plus 80 postage), "we would spend $187,859.10 saying 'Season...
...surprising that Paisnel, 46, a balding, mustached man, had escaped suspicion for so long. Though he fitted the few scraps of description offered by the victims?rough hands, a habit of softly muttering "Jesus"?Paisnel was a respected businessman, husband, and guardian of several foster children. Every year, "Uncle Ted" faithfully appeared at the local orphanage, dressed as Father Christmas, I! I to hand out sweets and toys...
...face make McCloskey's appearance every bit as vehement as his presidential thrust into New Hampshire--an impassioned vendetta against the Nixon Administration. "I am just tired of being lied to by members of the executive branch and having information concealed, and I think they have fallen into the habit of lying and not just to the people and the press, but to Congress...
...Egypt's "year of decision" against Israel, and now by telling the army that the time to fight has come, is painting himself into a corner. Using another image, an old U.N. hand last week put it thus: "Sadat, like Nasser before him, has developed a habit of hanging himself on a hook and then pleading with the major powers...