Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, America's shopping habit has become so ingrained that any lasting reversal may take a while. After the long-running, sunny times of the early '80s, many consumers feel little need for rainy-day reserves. Karen Peters, 43, of Orange, Calif., earns $48,000 a year as a county executive but typically keeps less than $1,000 in savings. On a recent trip to Santa Fe, she dropped $3,000 on a lithograph and a turquoise necklace. Says Peters, a widow who spends a portion of her income to help support her mother, 67, and daughter, 21: "Having money...
Moreover, for all his talk about political courage, Simon has yet to demonstrate any when it comes to foreign policy. Despite his habit of comparing himself to Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy, Simon's views are more in line with the quirky fringe that's so critical in the lowa Democratic caucuses: huge cuts in military spending, no aid to the contras, U.N. handling of the Gulf crisis, an end to SDI research and an immediate ban on nuclear testing. These ideas are not all necessarily bad, but they are when the advocate, like Simon, has put forth...
...Tubercular as a child, she was sent to convent school by her parents after they divorced. She was in her teens when, in 1964, she dropped plans to attend Cambridge University and hit the pop scene. Six years later, she had left Mick Jagger and developed a heavy habit. "I was a registered heroin addict," she says. "I lived on the streets for two years." She went through periods when she managed to reclaim herself, others when she just gave up. Two marriages shattered. Sometimes she would make an album or try a tour. Sometimes she beat her habit...
Cloninger's first group of alcoholics, about 25% of the total, tended to drink heavily before the age of 25, had bad work and police records and met with little success in treatment programs. Drinking was a habit they seemed to pick up on their own, with little encouragement from friends or other influences. When Cloninger checked how often alcoholism appeared in the sons of men who fit this description, he found it surfaced nine times as often as in the general population. This variation of the disease, Cloninger concludes, is heavily influenced by heredity. Because it appears primarily...
...second type included both men and women and made up about 75% of the study's alcoholics. They started chronic drinking usually well after the age of 25, rarely had trouble with the law, and often successfully kicked the habit. Their children were only twice as likely to have trouble with alcohol compared with the general population. Cloninger labeled this category of alcoholism "milieu limited," indicating a genetic predisposition to the disease that is triggered by extended heavy drinking...