• Many countries eschewed their past habit of abusing a boom to borrow.

    ECONOMIST: Latin America's economies

  • The poll, whose outcome has not been reported, asked whether voters would be turned off by Mr. Trump's past habit of giving to Democrats or his numerous appearances on TV.

    WSJ: You're Fired, Mr. President!

  • As Obama said Friday, he wants to try to "get past the habit" that ideas can be born out of one "ideological corner" or another.

    CNN: Borger: Do congressional Dems need intervention?

  • The issue of succession in Pyongyang is somewhat immediate due to the fact that Kim himself is thought to have suffered serious health problems over the past decade, no doubt worsened by his affinity for hard liquor and a probable past drug habit.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The House of Kim

  • Ms Wolf also has a habit of stretching concepts past their breaking point such as her theory that women are more prone to mysticism than men, owing to the fact that they are capable of producing more dopamine during sex.

    ECONOMIST: Tunnel of love

  • Even if some questions remain unanswered, F1 is not in the habit of dwelling on the past for too long.

    BBC: F1 returns to scene of the crime

  • One is that inflation spurts out of control, prompting a return to the Brazilian habit of automatically adjusting prices and wages against past inflation.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil and the IMF

  • Over the past decade or so, however, schools have adopted the habit of offering "merit aid" to students who don't necessarily need the money.

    FORBES

  • For the past few years I have satisfied my five cup a day habit with an Italian stovetop moka pot by Bialetti, the hourglass shaped design you see in almost every Italian kitchen.

    FORBES: The Rolex of Coffee Makers - How Swiss-Made Precision Changed My Life

  • That is, over the past generation the most selective schools in the country got into the habit of listing a high sticker price and then discounting that price as needed in order to fill a class.

    FORBES

  • As the past two years' rollercoaster has shown, market forces have a confounded habit of reasserting themselves.

    ECONOMIST: Mission impossible

  • Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's president of the past 26 years, has been annoyed enough to break, during Mr Bush's second term, from his habit of paying yearly visits to the United States.

    ECONOMIST: America and the Middle East

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