Word: habited
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...according to unnamed sources in all the papers, is Murdoch's 30-year-old son James. For many public companies, such a move would be considered drastic for its blatant nepotism. But this tasted like vintage Murdoch. For decades the global mogul has made a habit of replacing successful bosses within his vast $17.5 billion News Corp. empire (which owns 35.4% of BSkyB). But even if it's in character, Ball's removal, if true, raises serious questions. After all, BSkyB wasn't falling, so why mess with a winning formula? Or is Ball leaving of his own accord? Does...
Newcomers to Watch—TB Clifton Dawson. The sophomore transfer from Northwestern has shown exceptional speed and should see playing time, especially considering Harvard’s habit of using more than one back...
...caught leaving Algeria for Paris with €2 million in suitcases - money destined for cash-deprived Khalifa affiliates in Europe. One week later, the Bank of Algeria appointed administrators to oversee El Khalifa Bank's operations, citing multiple "irregularities." Khalifa's rapid access to suspiciously abundant capital and his habit of hiring unqualified family members of Algeria's ruling class led many observers to suspect another agenda. As early as last October, for example, a leaked French intelligence report estimated the conglomerate's annual losses at about €500 million and fueled suspicions that Khalifa's empire had been assembled...
...into the habit of not driving around with less than half a tank of gas. In a crisis, that half goes quickly...
America has a habit of "discovering" those extended comic books known as graphic novels every few years. It happened when Art Spiegelman published his shattering Holocaust comic Maus (and won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for it). It happened again in 2000, with the movie of Daniel Clowes' alienation epic Ghost World. And now we're coming back to the graphic novel yet again thanks to the film American Splendor, which is based on the autobiographical comic book by Harvey Pekar, who writes about life as a hard-luck, sad-sack, hospital file clerk in Cleveland, Ohio. He's no superhero...