Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JIMMY ("Nuts") CARTER, 1st b. rookie: Earned his nickname from habit of chewing peanuts instead of tobacco; smiles a lot; last year MVP in the Georgia circuit as well as the league's only player...
...Ease. Losing is not a habit the President wishes to cultivate in the new year. By his own admission, he faces a stiff challenge in the approaching presidential primary elections from former California Governor Ronald Reagan...
Fluor's formula for success starts with a strong tradition of meeting tight construction schedules-a big attraction because a month's delay on a $100 million project can easily cost the builder $1.5 million. The firm also makes a habit of training local workers to build and run completed facilities, a practice that has been much appreciated by the governments of Greece, Taiwan, Indonesia and South Korea. Partly for these reasons, Iran recently favored Fluor with a contract to build 65% of a $750 million refinery near Isfahan...
...says, since she was already a nun. This time the invitation was to serve the poorest of the poor. By the spring of 1948, Mother Teresa had won permission to leave the cloister and work in the Calcutta slums. In August of that year she laid aside her Loreto habit and donned the blue-edged, coarse cotton white sari that would become her new order's uniform. After an intensive nurse's training course, she opened a slum school in Moti Jheel just before Christmas...
...Gielgud can. John is a dear man but he is a born weeper. When we were all young and attended the theater, we would say, "Don't sit behind John." If the play was at all moving, he would begin to weep. And his tears had a funny habit of squirting off to the rear, so that if you were behind him you would...