Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second largest, after Germany's. Yet a primitive and easily manipulated stock exchange, an outmoded bureaucracy, and unenforceable tax laws encourage Italians to invest their money abroad. Even before last winter's series of strikes and government crises, Italians reverted en masse to their old habit of carting lire across the border by the suitcaseful...
...Habit. For all its dramatic effects, methadone therapy still stirs strong argument within the medical profession. The debate began in 1964 when Drs. Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander first started using the drug to wean addicts away from heroin. Methadone programs, which cost an average of $1,500 a year for each addict-as opposed to $5,000 to $10,000 for a year in prison -are operating in most major U.S. cities. About 10,000 of the country's estimated 200,000 heroin victims now participate in some form of methadone treatment; thousands more are waiting to enroll...
...relieves pain and eases the symptoms of heroin withdrawal without producing euphoria or the craving for ever-increasing dosages. But methadone has one quality in common with the heroin it replaces: it is just as addictive. Most of those who use it must continue their new, though less destructive habit indefinitely. While less painful than heroin withdrawal, kicking methadone can take longer. For most patients, the result is hardly worth the effort. A long-term heroin habit so alters the body's chemical makeup that life without opiates is virtually impossible. Therefore most addicts who give up methadone quickly...
...significance of their success is social and economic as well as medical. Methadone addicts obtain their drug legally and hence inexpensively. They can work to support themselves. Because most heroin addicts are forced to steal to sustain their habit, they now cost the country about $ 1 billion a year...
...whole conversation. So he stood there, and I sang for a minute and then quit." Kennedy was less patient with Poet Robert Lowell's insistent recitation of The Education of Henry Adams-and finally retreated to the toilet. Lowell indignantly recalled the Sun King's lamentable habit of giving audiences from a toilet throne. "If you were Louis XIV, you wouldn't mind," Lowell shouted through the closed door...