Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...criminal court. She kept on winning: a streak of 22 victories in cases that went to the jury. In 1977 Bobb drew "what we call a heater - a hot first-degree murder that produced a two-month trial and lots of publicity." Lapsing into the trial lawyer's habit of assessing courtroom opportunity, she recalls, "It had every thing, blood, gore, sex, kinky stuff. It was a great case." Working with two other prosecutors, Bobb nailed the defendants; each got a 100-to 200-year sentence...
From San Francisco, a man who had lost his wife and job because of his cocaine habit is contemplating suicide. He is talked out of it and referred to a local drug clinic. A cocaine abuser in Beverly Hills who has been suffering from drug-induced convulsions wants to know if they can possibly be controlled by Dilantin, a drug used for epileptic seizures. Answer: don't try it. A tearful California mother reports that her son has been free-basing cocaine for three years and is about to lose his job as a hotel manager. What...
...four-year-old private corporation that offers a 24-hour hot line and specialized treatment for cocaine sniffing, free-basing and injection. Nine out of every ten Cocaine Intensive callers are either divorced or are in the process of divorce, owing, they say, primarily to their cocaine habits. Says C.I. Director Joe Reilly: "Our callers' main fear is how their habit is affecting their personal relationships...
...Lear-as he did last fall for Britain's Granada Television, in a program showing exclusively in the U.S. through mid-June at the Museum of Broadcasting in Manhattan-is less a professional challenge than an act of reckless physical courage. This recklessness has become something of a habit with Olivier. A sense of danger, athletic as well as emotive, has often been at the heart of his Shakespearean performances. His Romeo (1935) clambered up to his fair lady's balcony in record time; his Hamlet (1947) leaped from a 14-ft. balcony to wrestle with Laertes...
...those with modest incomes. Frequent players, who can hope to win illegal jackpots of more than $2,500, include immigrant workers from Algeria or Portugal and residents of the poorer sections of France's major cities. Most of those people have no wish to break their habit, which costs many $15 a day or more. Says one jackpot junkie: "You'd better believe I like playing. You don't need friends, and you don't have to worry about being lied to. I just go home when I'm sick...