• Mr Starr has now exposed the president's habit of lying.

    ECONOMIST: Mea minima culpa

  • But now it appears to some that the old habit of using strong units to rescue weak ones is back with a vengeance, said observers.

    BBC: SK strife spreads to telecoms

  • Now that he has kicked the industry's habit of denying that there is anything the least bit unwholesome about smoking, Mr LeBow finds his motives impugned by the tobacco bosses who have continued for years to insist with straight faces at congressional hearings, against all the evidence, that they do not believe nicotine to be addictive.

    ECONOMIST: Tobacco��s Brutus

  • After all, the Bush family has a habit of running dirtily but governing cleanly (President Bush, now revered as a statesman, used the infamous Willie Horton advertisement against Michael Dukakis).

    ECONOMIST: Humdinger! | The

  • This has already happened with spitting in the streets, which many Chinese now regard as a backward habit.

    ECONOMIST: Persuading the Chinese to give up shark��s fin soup

  • It shows the world we lurch from crisis to crisis by habit now.

    WSJ: Government by Freakout

  • But, because of our failure to come clean with Communism, we are unable to deal with it, trapped as we are in the old Communist habit of deceit and double-speak that used to haunt the countries in the East and that now haunts all of us.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Geert Wilders in Berlin

  • Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Moby-Dick'

  • As for breaking the sleep-with-Mom habit, it may be easier now than when she was younger, says Ronald Becker, M.

    CNN: Six big kid sleep problems

  • If Detroit automakers are ever going to kick the incentive habit that has decimated their profits in recent years, now is their chance.

    FORBES

  • It's a work he is just now learning for the first time an example of this pianist's habit of stepping out of his comfort zone, as when he recorded albums dedicated to the music of Bill Evans and Duke Ellington, despite his admission that he can't really improvise.

    WSJ: Jean-Yves Thibaudet | A Classicist in the Modern Age | Cultural Conversation by Stuart Isacoff

  • America needs now to look beyond our own shores to shed the healthcare inefficiencies and inequities born of habit and history.

    FORBES: Realigning Health with Care

  • Strachan might point to a strong penalty shout that was turned down late on but nonetheless his return is now two points from his four games and he needs his team to discover the winning habit soon if they are to remain in contention for an automatic return to the Premier League.

    BBC: Peterborough 2-2 Middlesbrough

  • The party is praying that the Indian habit of toppling incumbents will bring it to power in Madhya Pradesh, where Congress now rules.

    ECONOMIST: Knowing your onions in India

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