Word: habitable
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Less controversial is the law's goal of cleaning up Venice. One source of pollution is the Venetians' time-honored habit of dumping their sewage into the canals and depending on the tides to flush the city clean. To stop the filth at its source, Venice will now build its first sewage system. In addition the law provides funds to help homeowners convert their oil heating systems -which now belch sulfur oxides into the air-to nonpolluting methane gas. The switch is necessary because the sulfurous fumes mix with the salty air and rot Venice's marble...
...disliked his stylistic mannerisms. He tells his tales through a troubled, dim, first-person narrator, and he saves the grisly denouement for the last sentence and then prints it in italics, as though that gives it greater shock value. Also repellent at first is the man's habit of stuffing his leisurely, Latinate sentences to repletion with adjectives and adverbs to modify, often tautologically, a stark noun or gruesome verb...
...while she was still in college, but went on studying to get a master's degree in art history. At 33 she is a bit more subdued than in her breathless revolutionary days before the Harrisburg trial. A few years ago, when her community shifted from long religious habit to optional civilian clothes, both Phil Berrigan and her sister nuns used to kid the mildly miniskirted Liz about having "the world's most wonderful legs." These days Liz's legs are often hidden behind a lectern: she is a tireless speaker on, among other topics, the question...
That is the least of Harvard administrators' worries. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III recently called in Bennett and another glass eater and attempted to wean them away from their strange habit. After all, slivers of glass can lodge in the intestinal tract, producing inflammation or obstruction...
...result of their years as Niemans, Sims feels that he and the other Fellows have "gotten out of the habit of salivating whenever we hear the fire bell ring. We're more interested in the whys, not the whats...