Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dean Rosovsky and the Harvard Faculty think that the Core of a liberal education is learning techniques? It is precisely techniques, methods of inquiry, habit of thought that define academic disciplines and disciplines define university departments. By giving students a core of techniques, the "core" curriculum is introducing them to the methods of the departmental scholar, not providing a liberal education. The Harvard Core has not wrestled general education away from the influence of specialized disciplines, which Dean Rosovsky warned would make a long-term commitment to general education "much more difficult." In fact the Core has simply re-defined...
There are numerous complaints about aching feet, legs, and backs, but no one gives any sign that they will not last the final hour. We eat and drink as if by habit--our 47th cup of diet soda, our 10th sandwich, our seventh chocolate chip cookie...
Efrat, now an energy-industry executive, was the panel's quiet member. But when he spoke it was as a man personally acquainted with both military habit and Ariel Sharon. In Israel's war of independence, he broke out of the hospital a week after being shot in the neck, in order to rejoin his platoon; during the 1967 war he commanded the audacious Golani Brigade, which seized seemingly unassailable Syrian positions. Since then, he has proved similarly dauntless in inquiries into episodes of possible army misconduct. As a former aide to Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, Efrat...
...showed last week just how hard it can be to kick the discount habit. The airline, which set off the recent round of $99 fares by offering them on more than 40 of its U.S. flights in January, had planned to halt them Friday. But Pan Am executives changed their minds at the last minute, and decided to keep the $99 rate on most of the flights through March. The airline apparently did so because virtually every other major U.S. carrier is offering some form of $99 ticketing until the beginning of April...
...Force, say the generals, often grossly underestimates the cost of weapons, orders more than it can pay for, then juggles the production programs in a manner that plays hob with efficiency. Also, it has a habit of "entering full-scale development with immature" technology. Their conclusion: the Air Force should cancel some weapons-buying programs and concentrate on those it considers top priority...