Word: habitant
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Trop's climb back was arduous. He had sold off his art collection and mortgaged his house to pay for his habit. He went through a series of treatment clinics and rebuilt his marriage and career. Even though he has not had cocaine in nearly three years, he is on guard...
...snorted coke occasionally but preferred the more mellow high of heroin, which a classmate gave her during her senior year. Soon she was hooked. After two years of college in New York and two more years abroad, Coleman settled in Manhattan. She tried to kick her heroin habit, enrolling in a methadone program. But soon she discovered an irresistible thrill: speedballs, injections of coke and heroin mixed together. She thus acquired a craving for the drug she had once dismissed. "The intense flash from the cocaine was so wonderful that if I only had $20 I'd buy coke...
...initially bought her drugs from friends, but as her speedballing grew to a $300a-day habit, she had to buy on the street. "At first I was scared," she says. "But then it became a part of it that I really liked, going into a really bad neighborhood...
When Claire Grenewald, a Summit, N.J., high school sophomore, made a habit of staying out late with her steady boyfriend, her parents bought her a beeper. Whenever she is 15 minutes past her 11:30 p.m. curfew, her parents dial a telephone number that causes a tiny electronic device stashed in her purse to beep, reminding her that it is time to go home. The elder Grenewalds also take the beeper along on their frequent trips to New York City. Says Susan Grenewald: "The kids can just buzz us if anything important happens. It means...
SENTENCED. Giovanni Vigliotto, 54, (authorities say he is really Fred Jipp, 47), flea-market merchant who made a habit, and a living, out of wooing, wedding and then fleecing his wives (he claims to have married 105 women in the past 20 years); to 34 years in state prison, the maximum sentence, plus a $336,000 fine, for his February conviction on bigamy and fraud charges brought by one of the 105, Patricia Ann Gardiner; in Phoenix...