Word: habitable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself and on some patients. He found the drug not only useful in overcoming depression but impressively effective against some purely physiological complaints. He used it to treat stomach disorders and persistent coughing. He was careful not to administer it indiscriminately; although he initially believed that cocaine was not habit-forming, he found its effects on patients too unpredictable to justify widespread...
...more heavily from Washington than Oregon (but will nonetheless ban pull-tabs on cans as a safety hazard). Though industry opposition is expected, a state-sponsored study strongly suggests that most Californians-and probably most other Americans as well-are ready to accept curbs on the throw-away habit that blights the land...
...example of one of Friedman's left-wing stands is the chapter entitled "Is William F. Buckley a contagious disease?" In it he refutes brilliantly Buckley's attempt to justify jailing narcotics users. Buckley argues that narcotics addiction is a contagious disease because most addicts acquire the habit by associating with other addicts. It is the government's responsibility, therefore, to incarcerate these addicts just as it would quarantine small pox carriers during a plague. But Friedman argues that this is an invalid parallel. Someone who catches a contagious disease is an unwilling victim. Someone who takes up dope after...
...sold 400,000 records for the latter alone)? What spare time Andre has he spends at home in Fontainebleau with his wife Liliane and three of his four children: Lionel, 14, Beatrice, 13, and Nicola, 2; Daughter Dominique, 21, recently made him a grandfather. Andre has a habit of taking long walks and practicing his trumpet deep in the woods. Early one morning after a concert in Munich, Andre drove out to a meadow in the Bavarian woods and began blowing. Three men armed with rifles suddenly ran toward him furiously. They were hunters who had been lying in wait...
...while vote at some general meeting. Meanwhile the rulers of the state and the other propagators of ideology sincerely believe in their ideology and many of them have devoted themselves to it out of long years of inertia, out of ignorance and man's peculiar psychological habit of developing a philosophy to justify his main sphere of activity...