Word: habits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PRESENT AGE has a habit of demanding sustained output from its artists, even at the cost of substandard quality Witness the proliferation of Saturday morning cartoons in response to the nationwide popularity of "The Flintstones." What followed was a wave of amazingly identical animated series, all featuring a family and it, highly humanoid housepet living in an unusual situation, i.e. on another planet. The fact that many of these disappeared from the networks within a few months hints at the disparity between perceived demand and real satisfaction, and underlines the need for artistic endeavors to proceed relatively independent of popularity...
Larry's Ices. Larry's, another chain, sold Italian ices with the same flavors as a tropical fruit pack of Life Savers. Larry (and his franchisers) made a mean ice, but they were a little expensive to make a habit...
...filled rooms." Since the 1964 report, almost 30 million people have managed to give up smoking. "Quitting 'cold turkey' appears to be a more effective strategy than cut ting down without trying to stop entirely," says the report. Surprisingly, 95% of the people who broke the smoking habit did so without the help of organized programs...
Smokers who have gone to college are almost twice as likely to break the habit eventually as noncollege smokers. Smoking among men reached a high in 1955 when almost 53% of American men smoked. For women, the peak year was 1966, when 33% were cigarette users. Today 37% of men and 29% of women use tobacco regularly. Teenagers, particularly girls, were of special concern in the 1970s when they began to take up smoking in record numbers, but the young appear to be cutting down a bit now. In another study published last week (see following story) researchers...
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