Word: habits
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...where 40,000 children have been removed from their violent, neglectful or drug-addicted families, the pink-stucco True Way Baptist Church may well be a station on the road to salvation. Just ask Delores Mayes, 28, whose children were seized and placed in foster homes when her crack habit got out of hand. Faced with losing them for good, Mayes entered a detox program for six months but had nowhere to take them when she emerged. That is when the church, under contract to the county, stepped in: its outreach workers found her housing and furniture. She reconciled with...
NEWS HAS A DISQUIETING HABIT of finding TIME's Johanna McGeary. In March 1981 she was one of the first reporters on the scene after Ronald Reagan was shot in Washington, a block away from where she had been lunching. In January 1994 she filed extensively on Los Angeles' Northridge earthquake, after the house at which she had been staying during a one-day travel stopover was rocked. And then, two weeks ago, she found herself in Jerusalem the day Yitzhak Rabin was killed...
...scrapping of the Wigand interview prompted instant speculation that news decisions had fallen victim to the corporate bottom line, it was force of habit. Since taking control of CBS in 1986, Tisch has been a bottom-line boss. He sold off key pieces of the company (notably CBS's publishing and music divisions), instituted drastic cost-cutting measures and shied away from paying big bucks at key junctures. Two years ago, CBS lost its perennial Sunday-afternoon N.F.L. football franchise when it was outbid for the games by Rupert Murdoch's Fox network. A few months later the network lost...
...Republican Party. You're supposed to create a foreign policy in the vacuum left by the cold war, solve Bosnia and lead us to a new era of prosperity and growth--all because you were a successful general and won a war." It is a charming but dangerous habit of voters to romanticize those they admire, even to the point of destroying them. Says Michael: "As George Will once put it, this is a hell of an entry-level job in politics...
There are plenty of other blacks who share this sentiment, but many are reluctant to voice it for fear of being branded race traitors. Their problem with Farrakhan, like mine, is not only his anti-Semitism but also his habit of selling wolf tickets--archaic black slang for making loud but empty threats. For all his cries about the need for blacks to develop economic independence, for instance, the Nation of Islam's enterprises are less than impressive: small businesses such as restaurants, the Final Call newspaper and security-guard companies that contract with public housing projects and similar institutions...