Word: habited
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...asked him whether he thought social work was now in style. "Indeed," he said, and so it is. In Iraq today, U.S. soldiers are building soccer fields and standing guard over girls' schools. This is being done in the name of an Administration whose members openly despised Clinton's habit of using the armed forces for missions short of war. ("We don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten," said Condoleezza Rice, now National Security Adviser, to the New York Times in 2000.) As for Liberia, all the key phrases last week - the need for clearly...
...found at the scene were Asian. (No one has yet been arrested; one suspect, who had a brown substance on his hands and scratches on his face, was detained nearby but released because of insufficient evidence.) Law-enforcement officials believe the Sierra Forest opium was meant for smoking, a habit most prevalent among Southeast Asians, who in recent years have flocked to Fresno--40 miles from the site--and to other central California communities. --By Margot Roosevelt
...Like a lot of Australians, visiting Noosa is a happy habit I formed as a teenage surfer?long before the town saw its first vegetarian caf? or yoga workshop. I would chase the waves north to the place where Pacific swells are transmuted into perfect point breaks along the many headlands and bays. Over the years, my occasional sojourns have become more frequent and are getting longer. To my mind, time spent in a beachfront apartment here should meet anybody?s definition of bliss...
Shaliah Denmark wore a pressed blue uniform to her first few weeks of seventh grade at Shoemaker Middle School, an imposing five-story fortress in down-at-the-heels West Philadelphia. At 12, Shaliah was starting middle school with low reading scores and a habit of chatting too much in class. But ebullient and with a sweet smile, she talked last fall of hoping to make the honor roll, of liking math. At home she trailed her mother Tanya around the kitchen, reading from homework assignments as Tanya cooked dinner. By this spring, however, the seventh-grader had ditched...
...roadmap." But precedent suggests that at the first sign of any disagreement - and there will certainly be many - both parties will be on the phone to the White House. Sharon, in particular, who has already held 8 meetings with President Bush since both men assumed office, has a habit of going straight to the top, preferring to bypass even Secretary of State Powell, and barely registers the presence of lesser envoys. He knows he has the President's ear, after...