Word: habited
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...several points, Obama found himself jousting with the newly feisty crowd. He tried twice, without any success, to limit a reporter to only a single question. He criticized McClatchy's Margaret Talev for prefacing a personal question about his smoking habit with a discussion of its policy implications. "I think it's fair, Margaret, to just say that you just think it's neat to ask me about my smoking as opposed to it being relevant to my new law," Obama chided. The President accused Tapper of playing "ombudsman" for pointing out that the President had declined to answer...
...North Korea has in the past made a habit of annoying China, its only ostensible ally in the world, what must Beijing be thinking now? For most of the past six years, China has been the host and chief promoter of the so-called six-party talks. Their explicit goal: to get North Korea to give up its nuclear-weapons program. When the North launched another long-range ballistic missile in early April, China helped promote the fig leaf at the U.N. Security Council that the rocket carried a communications satellite and thus might not be a direct violation...
...passed links" at social networks like Twitter and Facebook. This is what the naysayers fail to understand: it's just as easy to use Twitter to spread the word about a brilliant 10,000-word New Yorker article as it is to spread the word about your Lucky Charms habit...
...they would be willing to stop charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems if all Americans were required to purchase health plans. Perhaps the next step will be for life and disability insurers to look at their tobacco stocks and, as they say, kick the habit...
...Coining the argot that would come to pervade discussions over the past few months is not foreign territory for Smith, whose habit of careful wording often frustrates Faculty members seeking meaning behind the lingo...