Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the hours of arguing in the Cabinet Room at the White House last week, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin slowly started massaging the pectoral muscles on the left side of his chest. It was a nervous habit that betrayed the anxiety of a former heart-attack victim enduring new stress. In the wake of Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon, Begin had gone to Washington to defend his belligerent policies, and he had found little support in the White House. At one point, in what Begin later called "difficult days," President Carter tried to summarize the state of disagreement...
...Dealer, but he knew how to promote business. He wanted dollars from Washington, but even when the donor was a Democratic Administration, Daley insisted that his city hall rather than alien bureaucrats control the money. He was relatively honest, but he tolerated the baksheesh habit all around him because it served the System and the System served...
...reached the next station, whereupon wino and muscatel went flying out the door. The other wino was the more genteel type--and she kept me company from D.C. to New York last Christmas. She was a sweet old Southern lady--74 years old, she kept telling me--with a habit of pulling on a flask of "Irish Rose" wine every five minutes. By the time we hit Baltimore she was polluted and getting rancher every minute. Having had enough of this Blanche DuBois-Belle Reve trip, I pretended to go to sleep, but this wasn't good enough...
...into his head about the collapse of the Florida real estate boom of the 1920s. But Kattel had made himself vulnerable through overoptimism; he long refused to write down the value of loans in the bank's faltering portfolio. As C & S head, he had developed the boyish habit of sending symbolic bullets to Atlantans who made tough decisions. He dispatched one to Lance, whom he had helped to raise money for Jimmy Carter's Inauguration, when Lance was grilled by a Senate committee about his banking affairs. More important, Kattel made numerous statements that recovery for Atlanta...
...entire life. Then Cohen divided the total number of cancers in the population by the total number of drinks. He multiplied the result by an average reduction of life expectancy due to cancer-of 20 years. In that way, he determined that the diet soda habit would reduce life expectancy by about nine seconds per drink (as opposed to about twelve minutes for every cigarette), or about two days over a lifetime...