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...ONLY WAY to break the Hyperbolic Habit is to make the professors conscious of it. To this end I suggest the introduction of large electronic scoreboards into lecture halls. The boards will use multi-colored light bulbs to keep track of "as-it-weres," "quote-unquotes," "so-to-speaks," and other annoying phrases or meaningless digressions during lecture...
...American business had better deliver the real thing, because shoppers like Arlene Cantlon of Riverdale, Ill., are starting to make a scene. Cantlon lost her temper recently in a Venture Stores discount outlet because the chain was making a habit, in her opinion, of failing to have advertised goods in stock. "I asked to speak to the salesgirl in the shoe department, but nobody knew where she was. I waited 35 minutes while they looked for her. Nobody could find her, so I asked to see the store manager. At this point, I had a crowd of customers cheering...
...hostages from the seized American embassy in Tehran. George Cave, a retired CIA agent then working under a contract with the agency, asked Rafizadeh if Ghorbanifar could help. The former SAVAK agent advised Cave that Ghorbanifar was "one of the cleverest businessmen I have known. He has the habit of coming in as a partner and then taking over the whole operation." Rafizadeh told Cave that Ghorbanifar would never agree to work as a subservient CIA agent. "Then forget it," Cave replied. In a 1981 memo to CIA headquarters, Cave described Ghorbanifar as "unreliable." Contends Rafizadeh: "Anyone who refuses...
...overweight, the pregnant and sufferers from such food-sensitive diseases as diabetes and hypertension. Aiming for permanent eating-pattern changes, the dietitian or nutritionist often holds the client's hand during extended struggles to give up twelve cups of coffee a day or a five-bag Fritos habit. Says Manhattan TV Producer Roberta Becker, who dropped 20 pounds: "They are almost like weight shrinks...
Likewise, her slowness to act while former Defense Minister Enrile was openly challenging her authority was widely seen as a symptom of her habit of praying and delaying. Yet her admirers point to the Enrile firing as an example of an inspired sense of timing. "She's an extraordinarily good judge of people and performance," says Republican Senator Richard Lugar, who led the U.S. team of observers at the February elections and returned to Manila in August. "She has instinctive feelings of loyalty and of who is pulling with...