Word: habitating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, Harvard has a long-standing habit of down-playing its wealth. This is for good reason: Harvard is filthy rich...
...would disagree that working all night as a regular habit is unhealthy, particularly at a school where personal and academic pressures for certain students are already over-whelming. Anyone who has visited other colleges knows that Harvard is a somewhat sick place: People here work all the time...
Just ask customers like Barbara Stowe, a caterer in suburban Detroit who got out of the Sears habit years ago. Stowe walked into a remodeled store in Livonia, Michigan, to buy a paintbrush last month and left with an outfit for her 16-month-old niece and a renewed faith in the retailer that has since brought her back twice for Christmas gifts. "The clothes, especially for children, have amazed me," says Stowe, 47, a retailer's dream with a list that includes a grandchild and 26 nieces and nephews. "I used to get so frustrated with Sears. They would...
...foreseeable future, of course, most parents will probably continue to blame rock music and comic books, just out of habit. After all, a report a few years ago showing that young people were pretty much oblivious to the words of the songs they listened to had no effect on the fervor of the movement to protect impressionable teenagers from rock lyrics. The traditional homework dialogues between a teenager in his room and a parent at the bottom of the stairs will probably just continue without benefit of musical accompaniment...
...common room, and two of my roommates were working in their singles, with the doors shut. I have no idea how long either of them had been there, or where they had been before that, or when they were planning on leaving. Because we were in the habit of retreating into our bedrooms and closing the doors, I only had the vaguest idea of when my roommates were home and when they were not. This wasn't because we weren't friends or because we didn't do things together. But we didn't go around keeping tabs on each...