Word: habits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...haven't just awakened from a long nap, but I've obviously been asleep at this particular switch for quite a while. Then, out of habit one recent evening, I tuned to a baseball game on television. I don't know what caused my altered perceptions, but for the first time in a long while I watched, really watched, what was being displayed on my TV screen. And eureka! I knew the thrill that Archimedes experienced in his bathtub...
...Senior Gift fund--whose total value pales in comparison to many gifts the University receives, but serves to cultivate the habit of alumni giving--has come under fire from angry seniors in the past...
...budget fight in the weeks to come will be a character test, more so than in the days when there wasn't enough money to do anything. Both sides have a long habit of spending money now that won't arrive until later, and promising that they'll cut something without saying exactly what. The fear is that Congress will get too drunk on prosperity to drive the budget home safely--and that's why conservatives aren't so keen about the party in the first place...
...suggest the public may no longer be buying the industry's defenses. When a tobacco executive at the Florida trial tried to deny that cigarettes are harmful, one juror could be seen rolling her eyes. A legal system that for decades favored the cigarette companies may be kicking the habit...
...particularly fond of our habit of polling ourselves to find out how dumb we are. Almost weekly you can find the papers reporting some study that shows Americans know squat about history or geography or our own Constitution. Then we all clap our hands to our foreheads and bemoan the national dumbness once more. The most recent studies show that 72.6% of Americans believe Alexis de Tocqueville never should have divorced Blake Carrington and 94.7% think Chad is a men's cologne...