Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem is that Rabin is an indifferent administrator with little interest in domestic politics or party affairs. He is introspective, impulsive and has a habit of making decisions, then afterward informing the people concerned. This may work in the army-Rabin served for four years as Israel's Chief of Staff-but not with Cabinet Ministers. Some of them have first heard of Rabin decisions affecting their departments on radio news broadcasts. Time and again he has announced a policy decision and then been forced by angry colleagues to retract or compromise...
...shocked by the brazenness of the theft. A further jolt awaits him. His daughter catches a millionaire husband-and there is evidence that she may have abetted his first wife's death to do it. "Why write any of this?" a distraught Schuyler asks near the end. "Answer: habit. To turn life to words is to make life yours to do with as you please, instead of the other way round. Words translate and transmute raw life, make bearable the unbearable." It is the last refuge of the artist-or of the bitterly disappointed...
Xerox machines have probably become too ubiquitous for Americans to kick the habit entirely, but there are some measures that could discourage excess. Copier manufacturers could end their current race to build ever faster and more convenient machines, which only encourage overuse. Heavy institutional users of copiers could also replace their hares with tortoises; slower machines are generally cheaper to operate any way. To conserve paper - and trees - manufacturers could provide more recycled paper for their machines. And, of course, a little personal self-control would help; copying a marginally impor tant document does not diminish its superfluity...
...wrestlers from last year with poor records, Bill Haley and Mitch Silverman, failed to return this year. Bob Cusumono, a talented grappler who made a habit of running out of gas in the late minutes of his matches, quit the team too: George Baker (142 lbs.), who was 13-2 as a sophomore, left the squad last year. He returned this season, but the layoff showed, as he struggled to a 5-8 record...
...make his pitch, the conversation was jotted down by a secretary; some of the sessions were photographed through a one-way mirror. The material was turned over to the U.S. Justice Department for possible prosecution. Later investigation disclosed other kinds of fraud besides bribery. Some labs were in the habit of offering two sets of prices for tests, one for private patients and a higher one for Medicaid recipients. An examination of 20,000 laboratory billings showed that the median overcharge for Medicaid patients...