Word: habitating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Great teams make great playoff runs a habit, not a diversion. Wayne Gretzky's Edmonton Oilers, Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, Joe Montana's San Francisco 49ers, Cy Youngs' Atlanta Braves...Sean McCann's Harvard Crimson. They won their playoff games and their pieces of silverware because they were legitimately good teams, occasional postseason upsets notwithstanding (e.g. Oilers vs. Flames...
...chairman Michael Eisner's home, although presumably they won't be vacationing together as they have in the past. In Malibu, California, Ovitz is buying a few acres of property on a seaside bluff, a $5 million parcel belonging to Motown mogul Berry Gordy. Malibu property has a distressing habit of sliding into the sea or turning into charcoal, yet this particular purchase caused great chagrin to Ovitz's former Creative Artists partner Ron Meyer, now president of Universal. Seems Meyer had unwarily confided in Ovitz that he absolutely coveted the property, only to learn two days later that Ovitz...
RICHARD ZOGLIN, our media critic, changed one long-standing habit while working on this week's story on NBC News. "I always watch the nightly news at 6:30," he says, "but I mix it up by watching a different network every night." For the past few weeks, however, he taped all three news shows in order to compare what each was doing. Zoglin believes that despite the pressures of the marketplace, all three major networks produce basically serious and responsible news broadcasts, yet "NBC has probably moved further away from the traditional newscast, and its success is causing everyone...
Petrocelli's own handpicked team of four lawyers, a paralegal, one legal assistant and a secretary worked with a curious dynamic. A logical and orderly man, Petrocelli is nevertheless superstitious and a creature of habit. In several of his big civil trials, he had set up a courtside work center outside the main offices of his law firm. Once settled in, he had never set foot back in the office until the trial was over. He had never lost a case when he did this, so the Simpson case was not going to be an exception. Gelblum laughs...
Panetta's departure leaves an enormous vacuum, and Raines appears eager to take advantage of it. In a White House that churns out micro-initiatives every day, Raines has squelched the Administration's habit of making such announcements without checking whether OMB has sanctioned a plan to pay for them with cuts elsewhere. This month he stepped in to require a more thorough vetting of measures that would tighten food-safety regulations. "There were more people running around with their own little pet projects," says White House spokesman Michael McCurry. "Raines has reined...