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Once inside the White House, Livingstone continued to play the big shot. Most disturbing of his grandiose tendencies, three former Clinton staff members told TIME, was Livingstone's habit of insinuating that he had read their security files. The message, they contend, was that Livingstone knew all about their peccadilloes but their secrets were safe with...
...very interested in the way the world works," a friend said. "He made a habit of pressuring professors in class, even as a first-year. He was rarely satisfied with a partial answer...
...many people don't count the gallons they use, and if they forget to check the calendar, they can wind up with filtered water that is in worse condition than the stuff that comes from the tap. PUR, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has capitalized on this all-too-human habit by marketing a filter that automatically shuts itself off when it has expired...
...late 1970s, two foundation-sponsored blue-ribbon commissions recommended that the states ratchet up what students paid for a public university education to a third of the actual cost. Nothing happened right away, but afterward the states got into the habit of increasing the cost of higher education whenever a recession would hit--even though recessions are exactly the times when families are least able to absorb higher bills. (Later, of course, when the recession ended, the cost would not be ratcheted back down.) In most states, rising Medicaid costs and tough-on-crime legislation that required the construction...
...this, you will have to overcome a lifetime habit of thinking words are the enemy. Up until now they have seemed that way. Words muck up deals, create divisions, draw battle lines, are misunderstood. When you are a legislator, silence is your friend. The unspoken word never has to be taken back. (And dust-bowl Kansas wasn't exactly a place for airy chat; you grew up in the last age of yup and nope. "Lost the farm." "Bad." "Still tryin'." "Good.") Now it's all different. When you run for President, words are your friend, your only friend...