This habit called for ever-vigilant radar, but it seemed not to matter: there was no escaping his occasional escape.
NBC executives at first likened ABC's dependence on "Millionaire" to a drug habit, calling the show "crack".
The country's soft-tissue habit — call it the Charmin effect — has not escaped the notice of environmentalists, who are increasingly making toilet tissue manufacturers the targets of campaigns.
Mr. Morris, a creature of habit, called the Dr. Luke deal an attempt "to duplicate a magic trick" 21 years ago — his bankrolling of Interscope Records, which was co-founded by the producer Jimmy Iovine and has become one of the most successful labels in the business.
On the other side, the anticipatory paradigm is substituted by a cognitive and practical habit called resilience.25 Instead of getting ready to react to unexpected events, social systems get ready to react to unpredictability by preparing in advance the capability of facing the counter-expected event after it occurred.
James Farrer, a sociologist at Sophia University, in Tokyo, who studies Chinese dating habits, calls this phenomenon "a bubble in the marriage market".
Johnson supported Sanchez and praised his practice habits, calling him "the first guy in the building every morning and the last guy to leave".
The two species do not live in the same places or share similar ecological habits, calling into question the assumptions underlying both conservation and control strategies.
IT was in the spring of last year when a divorced mother of two teenagers in Livingston, N.J., realized that her 14-year-old son's online habits called for drastic steps.
Tension boiled over last week when a senior aide of Mr. Cuomo verbally attacked several newly elected lawmakers after they criticized Mr. Cuomo's fund-raising habits, calling them "idiots," preceded by a profanity.
