Word: habit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daley is at least partly to blame for the crisis. He had a habit of agreeing to generous labor settlements for teachers without knowing how he was going to pay for them. To some extent, he mortgaged the future of the schools to buy short-term labor peace. But he also had the muscle to keep the city going by prying additional aid out of the state legislature. Byrne will have to relearn some of Daley's lessons if the city that works is going to start working again...
...first Carter was stunned by what he had unleashed through a fairly casual process. He and his aides lapsed into their old habit of cataloguing all the things they could not do. But events would not allow...
...three Beich brothers obliged their great-grandfather McNulta, and smoked General Grant's gift cigar. They found it mild and surprisingly fresh, but they didn't smoke it too far down. General Grant was known for his habit of giving out exploding cigars. -Jane O'Reilly
...President Mageeba (Clarence Williams III), is toughing it out with a rival faction. Three newshounds converge on the opulent, isolated home of Geoffrey Carson (Joseph Maher), a British businessman with the most mines to lose. Dick Wagner (Paul Hecht) is a hardbitten Aussie, and a staunch unionist with a habit of regarding the Daily Globe, his paper, as larger than the earthly one. He is visibly miffed to find that an idealistic fledgling staff writer, Jacob Milne (Peter Evans), has scored a beat on him by interviewing the rebel leader. The trio is completed by a photographer (Dwight Schultz...
...kind of summary. CBS will weigh in with two hours, 10-11 p.m. on the 28th and 29th, called "The Seventies: A CBS Retrospective." Harry Reasoner, who, in the course of that decade, has gone from CBS to ABC to CBS, will narrate. NBC Sports, continuing its annoying habit of making one word out of every show title, has come up with "Sportsyear '79: The year of the Champion," the 22nd from 4-6 p.m. If it is anything like "Sportsworld," best advice may be to stayaway...