It seems old habits really do die hard - whether they are good or bad.
Would carmakers revert to their old habits of producing big cars with big engines?
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Scott points out that old habits die hard among traditional marketers and PR professionals.
New methods must be easy to adopt or they won't overcome the inertia of old habits.
The legacy of two lost decades has left voters with little nostalgia for old habits.
Times call for a boss willing to break with old habits, as SAP faces several problems.
In part it is because old habits die hard, even in the heat of military action in Libya.
While Sun learnt about brewing and rooted out bad old habits from its acquisitions, Baltika took an early lead.
Even within Sony, one of the most Americanised companies, old habits die hard.
And when it goes back down, everybody is back to their old habits.
They did not build on their dominant scrum and England went back to old habits where the ball was slow.
If Japan's established software firms are to thrive, they will first have to rid themselves of some bad old habits.
AUSTIN, Texas (AllPolitics, Nov. 14) -- Some Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives fear old habits could be hard to break.
The plant was built from scratch, using Japanese factories as a benchmark, so there weren't a lot of old habits to break.
But old habits won't be broken unless senior executives drive the process.
"It will take a while for the system to become decentralized and not as bureaucratic, for old habits to break, " she said.
So maybe, for this birthday, I should change up some old habits.
Still, old habits die hard: Harvey's family couldn't help but wish Harvey's start against the Yankees came in the Bronx rather than Queens.
Dealing with her failing mother and tenuous marriage instead of returning to old habits, she finally finds the strength to believe she's good enough.
They say old habits die hard, and the more time I spent on Koh Surin Tai, the more I saw this to be true for the Moken.
The technology exists to create seamless shopping experiences, but a combination of legacy systems, imaginary boundaries and old habits are preventing retailers from implementing them.
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Yet many risks remain, starting with the fact that though the U.S. said it was going to butt out of Honduran affairs, old habits die hard.
Or will Pena Nieto and his party capitalize on this historic opportunity to break with old habits of the past for the benefit of the country?
Nonetheless, old habits of political clientalism are hard to break.
If the Supreme Court votes to outlaw tax favors, Congress probably would revive them with a statute granting permission to the states to go back to their old habits.
But perhaps what really unnerves Indonesians is change itself - that a new set of people, with unfamiliar track records and little loyalty to old habits, are taking charge.
We have even considered refusing to prescribe inhalers until some patients come for a review, and even those who do come go straight back to their old habits very quickly.
Softbank president Son Masayoshi calls it "Japan-style e-commerce, " a hybrid of old habits and new tricks to work around the mistrust the country's shoppers have of credit cards and online transactions.
The answer is surprisingly obvious: old habits die hard.
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