Word: habitant
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...Saturday, the team broke out of its habit when it defeated league rival Dartmouth...
Ewell has a habit of denegrating his team's performance. He was not pleased with their 4-3 victory two weeks ago in Bright Center either...
While American borrowers could afford to pay a hefty premium to finance the U.S. deficit during good times, the country will have a difficult time supporting its debt habit during a slowdown. Says Karin Lissakers, a professor of international affairs at Columbia University: "Let's face it, like any country that has gone deeply into debt, the U.S. has lost its autonomy in economic affairs...
...Clearly," says U.S. Ambassador William Swing, who was a junior diplomat in South Africa in the mid-1960s, "there has not been a time in my association with this country that the prospects for a settlement along just lines have been as favorable." Yet Pretoria is notorious for its habit of taking two steps backward for every step forward. De Klerk is urging against unrealistic hopes. But if he fails to fulfill at least some of the expectations, he will risk a powerful backlash that could wreck any prospect for progress in the near future...
...When they targeted him, it boomeranged," says Schaefer's former press secretary, Bob Douglas. Some of the N.R.A.'s legislative allies have also been put off by the group's habit of turning upon old friends for a single departure from gospel. Arizona Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini, a longtime N.R.A. supporter, is now targeted in N.R.A. literature because he sponsored one of several bills before Congress that propose to ban assault rifles...