Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temporarily in the Damascus airport hotel and granted them "asylum." Syrian authorities seemed less certain what to call the disposition of the hijackers. A government spokesman said they were not being granted formal political asylum but rather, temporary refuge for "humanitarian" reasons. In light of Syria's past habit of letting hijackers disappear, neither prosecution of the threesome nor their return to Pakistan seemed likely...
Criminologists agree that drugs contribute heavily to violent crime; some claim that nearly half of all street crimes are drug related. Drug users either rob and mug to get money to support their habit, or lash out irrationally under the influence of their narcotics...
...They have been stored away in a closet. What the President had in mind was great paintings of an earlier West, scenes by the likes of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and Charles Russell. Reagan wants the Western feel with class. Curiously, Reagan balances this new formality with his own habit of doing things himself. The sight of Lyndon Johnson sticking out his hand and a hovering steward thrusting in a fresh drink is still remembered around the White House. Reagan gets his own glass of water, when he can. "In the White House there is a fellow there to throw...
...CHUL meeting or the ever-popular event described by the clever Crimson headline "Long Weekend Arrives: Some Leave, Others Stay." There are some serious and insightful articles in here which are no less legitimate because they appeared in a "college" newspaper. John G. Short '70, who made a habit of covering events by participating first and writing later, delivers a long and impassioned account of running with the Weathermen during the Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969; Jody Adams '69 writes movingly about the University Hall bust--"Inside, With Arms Linked, the Kids Awaited the End"--with fire...
...sophisticated machines have rendered more people useless and unhappy. Ambien suspects that the Canopeans have achieved a wisdom that transcends this problem, and she initiates a friendship with Klorathy, a senior Canopean administrator, in the hope of prying his secrets away. The job is not easy. He has the habit of answering a question with another question. He is also given to interstellar bromides: "Everything is relative, you know!" After a while, the sessions between these two begin to read like something called Zen and the Art of Empire Maintenance...