Word: habitant
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...Just as with any habit made early in life when someone votes one way the first, and second time, it's a lot more likely that they will vote that way down the road. If it doesn't set at lifelong pattern of definite votes for Republicans, at least it sets a lifelong leaning to that side...
...these little air-breathing water worms, but the more water the better. The larvae zip around, feeding on bacteria and bits of vegetation, which they filter through bristles in their mouths. In some species they also eat one another or the larvae of other mosquitoes, a habit the folks at the Mosquito Unit would like to encourage...
...should have known not only that Ross Perot, for all his verbal machismo, has always walked away from fights once they got too tough; that he seemed to have delusions of grandeur, fed by our curious habit of treating successful entrepreneurs as geniuses; that in politics he was both amazingly naive and obnoxiously arrogant; that he promised to fix everything without spelling out what he would...
...without a sympathetic pretext to protect him. So, when the Washington Post detailed Perot's considerable record of investigating people, including Bush himself, the President jumped at the opportunity. Seizing on reporters' misinformed suggestions that Perot had investigated Bush's children, the President described Perot's habit as not "particularly American." In an interview with ABC's 20/20 taped later, Bush inflated the charge: "If he was having my children investigated, that is beyond the pale. Leave my kids alone...
Scholars of religion claim that all of us have some kind of religion, even if it's purely negative (atheism) or latent. Mine was pretty latent. Sure, I believed in God, but it was just like biting my nails: a childhood habit I never really tried to break. As far as I was concerned, all I needed was chutzpah and high SAT scores for my life to be perfectly under control. But that was before I faced the Great Harvard Humbling Experience...