Word: habited
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...former office worker, says from the privacy of her home. With those they trust, Iraqis do grumble about Saddam and his excesses, about the way his ruling circle assesses 7% "for the family" on every business deal. But 30 years of Saddam have instilled in Iraqis a reflexive habit of survival. They seem too tired, too disillusioned, too frightened of one another to plot serious conspiracies. And they have total disdain for the opposition exiles scheming abroad...
...fellow can get pooped. He still knows the rhythms (ba-da-dum or ba-da-bing) but has run out of witty variations. He's vamping, working from the Catskills version of muscle memory. His obsession is just a job; he's confecting comedy not from inspiration but from habit...
...young woman who has better things to do than measure her waistline or weekend planner by the monthly dos and don’ts page. I find the advice absurd and the trends contradictory from one issue to another. Writing this column has allowed me to scrutinize this harmless habit of mine until it has come to seem a bit harmful. Each column has been my attempt to wrestle the hysteria of beauty and fashion into some logical space, laughing and shaking my head in disbelief along...
...mind-blowing effects, and you have yourself a blockbuster. If you are trying to get a Marvel franchise off the ground, you might need a little something extra—and that little something is what will make Spider-Man succeed when other comics-based films have the unfortunate habit of landing belly-side down at the box office. For every Blade or X-Men, which made an impressive $157 million, there are at least two films that end up like The Punisher, whose nameless and skull-less vigilante left audiences yawning...
They allege that Pomey and Gomes used the money to support a “lavish lifestyle,” including Gomes drug habit of ectasty and crystal methamphetamine...