Word: habitating
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...supertanker. It takes effort to change the course of such a ship." But even while counseling patience, he is counting on his image as a decisive leader to win understanding in Washing an. Already the Japanese bureaucracy is complaining about the speed with which Nakasone demands action, a habit that he is said to have learned from one of his idols, the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Having convinced the skeptical South Koreans of his good will, Nakasone may find the going easier with a politician as amiable as Ronald Reagan...
...compelling case. By documenting the historical changes in U.S. business policy since the booming '50s and '60s that have led to the present recession. Bluestone and Harrison avoid what has become a tiresome self-defeating habit of American leftists--blaming everything on Ronald Reagan. Indeed, if there's anything The Deindustrialization of America makes clear, it's the sheer irrelevance of Reaganomics to the U.S. economy's underlying problems...
...lack of experience. He does not always establish the point from which the action is to be viewed. It is unlikely, for example, that a passenger in a helicopter could perceive that a fence, far below, was strung at the top with concertina wire. Palmer also has a habit of interrupting characters' reveries and providing information that they do not know, a tic that needlessly diverts attention from the puppets to the puppeteer. But he successfully keeps a large cast of vivid actors breathlessly on the move. Better still, he offers an entertainment that is also a journey through...
...persuading Morris to abandon cigarette production are about as slim as the chances that its cigarettes will be found to be good for the lungs. Unless either of those unlikely scenarios develops, we think it's best that the managers of Harvard's portfolio kick the Philip Morris habit...
Nothing much happens. Charles' only friend Sam loses his job as a jacket salesman and moves in. His mother, alternately in a silver lame dress, bathtub, or asylum, has a bad habit of attempting suicide. Susan, the fresh-faced younger sister, "always appears to be happy and normal. She must know something," he muses. Reminders of the Sixties lie sprinkled about: Janis Joplin on the car radio, references to Woodstock--according to Susan, "Just a bunch of people walking around in the mud looking for a place to pee." But these bits of nostalgia are carefully controlled, contributing...