Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What explains the rush away from the long-preferred Democratic label is the fact that in Chicago racial voting has become a habit. Blacks and whites each account for about 42% of Chicago's 3 million population, and Hispanics for most of the remainder. If two or more white contenders carve up the white vote, blacks -- voting as a bloc -- have the numerical strength to elect a mayor on their own. That is what happened in 1983, when Washington narrowly won the Democratic nomination in a three-way primary race against former Mayor Jane Byrne and Cook County Prosecutor Richard...
...many students from working-class backgrounds, one of the most painful practices of "conventional" Harvard undergraduates is their habit of generalizing about things they know nothing about...
...diagnosis. "He's been Sybil-izing a lot lately," McMahon yawned, a coded reference to a multiple personality. "Why would I not want to throw a football? I have to go to practice anyway." Personally opposed to practice, he ridicules the Bears' lack of a heated facility and their habit of shuttling to Champaign-Urbana or Suwanee, Ga. "If you want to be a Bear," he likes to say, "it's a good idea to get into the frequent-flyer program...
...apotropaic use for him, keeping at bay the demons of the unconscious. He wrote incessantly; his letters from the asylum, unmarred by a single note of self-pity, are among the most lucid and heartbreakingly frank disclosures ever written by a painter. He categorized and cataloged his work, a habit for which art historians, wishing Cezanne had done the same, have long been grateful. And in October 1889 he summed up the relation between his paintings and his illness in one piercing metaphor: "I am feeling well just now . . . I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely...
...elections -- to reach the point where individual Americans were so willing to follow their own judgment politically and make their decision at the polls without regard to party," says Political Historian Horace Busby. "Such voter judgment serves notice that the parties must rely on performance rather than prejudice, habit or family tradition to hold their position in the public arena...