Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Needed: major changes in Government-but not constitutional surgery "Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time...
...come and gone by then, maintaining the new darker shade of blond she has adopted on the recommendation of an image consultant. Lunch, if not official, is likely to be a salad brought in by her secretary. Dinner is regularly taken at the House of Commons with backbenchers, a habit that builds political capital. It also saves cooking: the Thatchers have no regular cook. After dinner she may have guests for drinks in the family quarters or settle down to several hours of paperwork. Says an aide: "Hers is a nononsense, no-fuss life...
...stocked it with groceries to have ready when she moved in. The woman arrived two weeks later and found no trace of food or refrigerator. The landlord, it turned out, was a heroin addict who had eaten all the groceries and then sold the fridge to finance his habit. The woman won the case easily, and moved in the next...
...grandmother's house in Fingerbone, an isolated community somewhere in Idaho. The girls' mother then drives a borrowed car Into the nearby lake and joins her father, who had drowned there years earlier. Ruth remembers: "My mother left me waiting for her, and established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain." Fingerbone ("a meager and difficult place") and the vast Northwest surrounding it give the growing girl plenty of emptiness to ponder...
...five years ago in their country, and just a year ago in the U.S. and Europe. One reason: the introduction of small receivers, no larger than paperback books, and sets that cost as little as $60. "It's astonishing how many people have picked up the short-wave habit," says George Berzins, a spokesman for the Voice of America. "We've noticed a big increase in audience, and so have most other broadcasters." (This audience does not include ham operators, who broadcast as well as receive; for the most part they listen to one another...