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Cloninger's first group of alcoholics, about 25% of the total, tended to drink heavily before the age of 25, had bad work and police records and met with little success in treatment programs. Drinking was a habit they seemed to pick up on their own, with little encouragement from friends or other influences. When Cloninger checked how often alcoholism appeared in the sons of men who fit this description, he found it surfaced nine times as often as in the general population. This variation of the disease, Cloninger concludes, is heavily influenced by heredity. Because it appears primarily...
...habit to marry Jews," said Don Antenor...
...habit to marry Indians," said Jimmy...
...commission was impaneled last May after the Supreme Court freed a Muslim army officer who had been imprisoned for seven years on the basis of perjured testimony by Shin Bet agents. The three-man panel condemned Shin Bet's habit of lying in court but agreed that "moderate" physical and psychological coercion is necessary to extract information. "The view prevails that there is an unavoidable need to use physical pressure in interrogations," the commission concluded...
...Soviets have made a habit of linking and unlinking progress on arms control to demands for restricting SDI. After relinking the issues in Reykjavik and thereby dooming that meeting to failure, Gorbachev just as suddenly announced last February that he was willing to sign an INF accord independent of any progress on SDI. The Administration was euphoric and tumbled through a set of negotiations that expanded the original INF proposal to include a virtual ban on all medium- and short-range missiles worldwide. But during the summer Soviet officials dropped hints, some of them in interviews with TIME, that...