Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rose Cipollone was intensely stubborn, especially about her cigarette habit. The New Jersey housewife often ordered groceries she did not need just to get a fresh pack of smokes delivered. She ignored her husband and children when they started urging her to quit in the early 1950s, waving them away when they showed her magazine articles with headlines like CANCER BY THE CARTON. She did make the concession of switching in 1955 from Chesterfield straights to L&M filters, which were advertised at the time as "just what the doctor ordered." But Cipollone kept on smoking even after developing...
What was difficult for Cipollone's lawyers to prove was that she was helplessly addicted. They contended that her failure to quit despite her encroaching cancer was dramatic evidence of her inability to shake the habit. The defense argued that she could have given it up sooner had she really tried, as millions of other smokers have managed to do. The jury, apparently not fully persuaded of her determination to quit, decided the responsibility for her illness was 20% the cigarette maker's and 80% her own. Since New Jersey law says that product-liability awards can be given only...
...door Rodriguez has made a habit of knocking on is that of Admissions and Financial Aids Officer David Illingworth. "Because she is a Slavic concentrator, there hasn't been a lot of financial aid," Illingworth says...
...praise from one part of the quirky, mixed-up world of publishing often means scorn in another. Wolfe's detractors--and he has more than his share--decry his attention to frivolous details, such as clothing, while others comment on Wolfe's habit of stereotyping certain sectors of society. Wolfe admits in an interview with New York magazine that he parallels his own writing on that of Blazac and Zola, and Bonfire is his attempt to do with New York what the two 19th-century authors did with Paris...
...time operators who may grab one cow at a time and load it into a trailer. Says Steve Westbrook, one of 32 private field inspectors hired by the state: "Used to be cowboy types would steal cattle. Now it's everyone, from a person trying to support a drug habit to an unemployed person who is behind on house and car payments." The victims of many of the Texas thefts are city dwellers who have weekend "ranchettes" of about 15 acres, where they relax and keep a few cows and perhaps a horse or two. With no one minding...