Word: habitating
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...Winning is a habit; you have to develop that habit. Sometimes before you win you have to lose. Once you learn how to lose, then you find ways to win. We've got to get to the point where our players, on any given Saturday, deep down inside, honestly believe that they can win that...
Such confusions show how hard it is to improve education once people are firmly in the habit of seeing high school as only a means to a practical end. Getting into college has long been the most obvious of these ends. But its overriding importance has made it harder and harder to conceive of cleaning up pre-college academics for their own sake. Now the urgency and, perhaps, the practical inspirations are there. Curriculum reform could become one of the most valuable projects of the 1980s--but not unless educators and the public can shake off their obsession with that...
Television has this strange habit of doing its best in the off-hours. To culture critics denouncing TV's wasteland, the explanation is simple: whatever is aimed at mass audiences is inevitably broader, shallower and shoddier...
...symbol of status, health or sex appeal, the strong body is a sensible goal ? and not only for those women whose livelihoods depend on the rigorous care and feeding of their bodies. Jane Doe, as as well well as Jane Fonda, is making a good habit out of exercise, sport and weight lifting, and has the new body to prove it. Lisa Yeager, 23, is a secretary at an Atlanta bank and a cheerleader for the Atlanta Hawks basketball team. "A well-toned body shows me that a woman cares enough about herself to improve herself. I exercise because...
When Advertising Executive Todd Lief, 47, gave up his four-pack-a-day cigarette habit a few years ago, he put aside his tobacco money to buy an Apple computer. His wife Jo, 44, a Chicago family therapist, supported the idea. At least at first. Then she discovered that computers, like cigarettes, can be habit forming. "He really got into it," she says. "After a while, I felt angry-abandoned. On a sunny, beautiful day he would sit at the computer for eight hours straight...