Word: habited
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...that keep track of economic indicators got a bit worse. But, that was not the tipping point. What was is when analysts started to take data that was a day or two old and spin it from good to bad. No amount of psychotherapy would break them of the habit of changing their minds so quickly. Fickleness ruined the impression that the financial world was getting better and that by the end of the year GDP would be rising again...
...Royal has made a habit of making apologies for Sarkozy, which she's found to be an effective way of pushing conservatives' buttons. Her letter to Zapatero was the second time in two weeks that she caused an uproar by extending France's regrets for Sarkozy's utterings. On April 6, Royal asked an audience in Senegal's capital Dakar to pardon France for a controversial speech the president gave there shortly after his election in 2007. In the speech, Sarkozy said "the African man has not sufficiently entered history" as a result of becoming caught in an "eternal...
...that seas have their seasons, too - and with equally dire effects. Between 1974 and 2006, summer conditions in the Mediterranean expanded by 40%, meaning the season has grown on average one day longer each year. For the Gorgonia and other sensitive suspension invertebrates - the term refers to the organisms' habit of feeding on particles suspended in the water - the added length has made an already tough season even tougher...
...This Monday, “4/20,” is an American holiday for pot-smokers. Drug usage is a terrible, unhealthful habit that I do not support. However, if on Monday you do plan to smoke weed, at least buy American. If not, your habits may kill...
...most accounts, students spend a heck of a lot of time logged onto Facebook, a circumstance that irks educators, who complain of students messaging friends or posting snarky status updates from their laptops instead of paying attention to lectures. It was this habit that first got Karpinski interested in the topic while she was earning her master's degree in developmental psychology at West Virginia University. "When I became a teacher's assistant, I started noticing my students' using [Facebook] and becoming obsessed with it," says Karpinski - who is not on Facebook, despite her fellow classmates' badgering efforts...