Word: habited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...still a distinctive part of the crank system. As many as 23 customers have been known to share a single line. Courtesy requires that a party-liner give a little ring when signing off to notify the others that the line is clear. One sociable lady has made a habit of giving a little ding when she comes on, extending an invitation to her neighbors to tune in for lively listening. Eighty years ago, when the first switchboard occupied the back of Dudley's Store, impromptu musicales were broadcast along party lines, featuring a harmonica player named Davis...
...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...