Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Getting excited is a Canadian habit at budget time. So it was hardly surprising last week when people from Newfoundland to British Columbia stopped everything to discuss how the government's new $92 billion budget would affect their pocketbooks. In his budget message in Ottawa's Neo-Gothic House of Commons, Finance Minister Michael Wilson announced an 8.4% decrease in Canada's $24 billion national deficit, crowed about the country's improved economic outlook and promised a tax-reform program that would lower personal taxes. Wilson had barely finished announcing the good news when most Canadians yawned and turned their...
...think it's hilarious," Polsky says, but adds that he wouldn't care to try the sport himself. "It's sort of like smoking. You don't want to get the habit...
...really a compulsion. Sometimes I don't even enjoy them--it's just a habit I have," says Jai Y. Scott '89, a devotee of video games...
Some have managed to break, or at least cut down, on the habit. "I used to be really addicted," says Scott R. Panzer '88. Panzer plays on the Quincy House foosball ladder and is the House "czar. The czar is handpicked by the previous czar and takes responsibility for the upkeep of the table and running the ladder...
Experts are divided on the company's chances for a recovery. Says a skeptical Maryann Keller, who follows the auto industry for Furman Selz, a Manhattan investment firm: "AMC has a habit of coming out with cars that are popular for a year and then just die away." Ronald Glantz of Montgomery Securities in San Francisco offers more hope: "There's a pretty good chance that AMC can make money, but a lot of things have to come together...