Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brinkmanship is an old New York political habit. Now, however, the state faces its own huge budget deficit. New York City is taxed to the breaking point. Accounting gimmicks, such as the familiar habit of putting current expense items into the capital budget, which is supposed to cover construction projects, have at last caught up with the city...
...HUMAN EQUALITY. The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of . . . The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom and education...
...convicted rapist in Texas' Huntsville penitentiary, David Stonestreet, 45, agrees that prison can become a habit. "A lot of inmates in this system have grown up through it since the time they were juveniles. These are their friends-the only people they know. Back on the streets they are nobody, so they commit a crime and come back here because this is their home. I can come in here and live and not be hassled. All I've got to do is my job and that's it. I don't have to buy food-nothing...
Congress's failure to legislate any tough energy program puts the burden on the Ford Administration, which has already doubled its tariff on imported oil, to $2 per bbl. But an argument broke out within the Administration over that scheme. Commerce Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton, who has a habit of dropping bombshells at breakfasts with reporters, let go another last week. Shortly after the orange juice, he confided that he might recommend scaling down or scrapping the tariff boost if OPEC does in fact raise prices. Morton's comment was repudiated immediately by Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb...
...grown into the habit of attributing his lack of visibility to the size and structure of the University, something that could not be changed. But confidential memoranda from Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, and Robin Schmidt, assistant vice president for public affairs, painted a different picture...