Word: habitating
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...rapes, our first reaction was, "What about that?" The [Bosnian Serb] leadership explained, "It is absolutely not the truth, absolutely not." That was what was explained to us, and we then had a very deep confidence in what they were explaining. And I believed that just because of habit. One detail reported in the press: a Muslim girl who was pregnant by rape got shelter in a hospital in Switzerland. An abortion was not possible, and when the child was born, it happened to be Negro. No Serb was a Negro...
...profound belief that there is only oneway to achieve this: we must divest ourselves ofour egotistical anthropocentrism, our habit ofseeing ourselves as masters of the universe whocan do whatever occurs to us. We must discover anew respect for what transcends us: for theuniverse, for the earth, for nature, for life andfor reality. Our respect for other people, forother nations and for other cultures, can onlygrow from a humble respect for the cosmic orderand from an awareness that we are a part of it,that we share in it and that nothing of what we dois last, but rather becomes part...
...culture where book reading is supposed to be an endangered habit, it is an oddly heartening sight. By the end of the year, the U.S. will have more than 450 sprawling, chain-run book emporiums equipped with reading tables, sofas, club chairs and coffee bars. Well over 100 new ones sprang up in 1994; seven will open this year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, alone. These superstores, run by such chains as Barnes & Noble, Borders and Media Play, usually stock around 100,000 titles (in contrast to 20,000 for a typical mall store). But the real attraction is the opportunity...
...overtaxed immigration officer and decides to exploit the error. Families, it seems, have a better chance of attracting sponsorship-and thus escaping from the refugee camps-than singles do. For good measure, she adds a son (a street kid) and a grandpa (a silent, nutty old guy with a habit of shedding his clothes and climbing trees, hoping to glimpse his lost homeland) to her surrogate brood...
Humans have made a long-time habit of struggling with machines of their own construction. Just think of the archetypal office worker, harried by a combination of inscrutable copiers, fax machines, phone systems and computers...