Word: habitating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maybe the problem goes deeper than our smug habit of attributing crime to individual character flaws. What we seem to be forgetting--both those of us who want to be 10 again and those who want to lock up 10-year-olds in the pen--is that childhood is not just a triumph of miniaturization. Kids really are different, which is what seven-year-old pilot Jessica Dubroff's death last April should have taught us. And the line dividing the kids from the grownups is at least as serious and consequential as that other life-cycle boundary we fuss...
...problems of [this] Administration have become ... a habit of half-truths ... [the] rhetoric he adopts is intended to mask, not reveal, his true intentions...
...chairman of TLC Beatrice International Holdings, which has the odd distinction of being America's largest minority-owned enterprise without having any U.S. businesses, Lewis has made a habit of defying the odds. Following the death in January 1993 of her husband Reginald (Reg) Lewis--the African-American tycoon who demolished the Wall Street color line in 1987 by buying Beatrice International for $1 billion--it was widely assumed that his widow would remain secluded as majority shareholder and silent partner...
...whatever else I can get my hands on for even the most esoteric scraps of information. Stanley Kubrick is tossing around the idea of moving back to the United States? Eddie Vedder got a new cat? Even though I keep my ear to the ground, I have the peculiar habit of going into bookstore and record stores for the sole purpose of scanning the titles of my favorite artists and authors. Even when I know damn well that a new work isn't coming out for months. Even when I have no reason to believe that anything new is coming...
...used to be that the networks could say to me and you, 'Sit down at 6:30. That's when we will give you the news.' Now we pick when we have time to watch the news." The O.J. Simpson case also broke many viewers of the evening news habit: when the trial (carried live on several cable channels) ran into the evening newscasts in the East and Midwest, viewers simply continued watching the trial...