Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book, Breaking the TV Habit (Scribners; $9.95), Wilkins describes the telltale signs and dangers of television addiction and offers a straightforward four-week program to break the habit without severe withdrawal symptoms. Addiction may be a metaphor, but the reality, according to Wilkins, is that among American children, television ranks second only to sleeping as a consumer of hours. The average American, both child and adult, watches more than six hours of television daily. By the age of 14, a devoted viewer will have witnessed 11,000 TV murders, claims Wilkins, and will digest 350,000 commercials before graduating from...
...McNamara wants from Tip O'Neill is a chance to debate on the issues, to let the voters choose a winner based on accurate information--not habit. Frank McNamara wants to help put America on a diet that will unclog her financial arteries and restore her to health. He wants to cut the fat out of government. Most of all, however, Frank McNamara simply wants an opportunity to provide the voters with a clear alternative. Should McNamara be given this chance, I have to wonder whether Tip's electoral fears will be confirmed come November 2. Susan Vaughan '85 Winthrop...
...oldest and most prestigious department-store chain. The company, which grew from a modest kimono shop, founded in 1673, to a $2.4 billion concern, now has 15 branches in Japan and others in London, Paris, Rome, New York and elsewhere. But Okada seemed to have a most un-Japanese habit: he was unwilling to take responsibility for his actions, in both his professional and his private life. Last week Okada's personal flamboyance and his involvement in a series of embarrassing scandals caught up with him, in a manner that stunned his colleagues and shocked the upper echelon...
Most likely the habit of applauding is responsible for another phenomenon peculiar to Harvard hissing. This one, Thernstrom reflects gives proceedings "a slight element of spice." While most professors share Thernstrom's benevolent acceptance of good natured hissing. "If one tells a bad pun, one deserves to be hissed," John L. Clive, Kenan Professor of History and Literature asserts many students feel hissing has no place in the lecture hall. "It's very disruptive," says Tracy Rouse. "Students hiss down questions if they don't like them like this morning in Chem...
...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...