Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when it is not poised on pointe, see Music, Soviet Pop Ballet. r RAGGED down by the auto indus-'-' try's slump, Detroit is the most recession-battered big city in the U.S. What worries thoughtful Detroiters even more than the current acute chill is a chronic malaise that afflicted the city even before the nationwide recession started, and will still be nagging it after the recession is past. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Recession in Detroit...
...Chronic Aches Hurt Badly in Hard Times...
Detroit's pessimism, like its unemployment, is more than merely a symptom of the U.S.'s current recession. The recession only made chronic trouble acute. Memories of dead or departed auto companies-Hudson, Packard, Kaiser-Frazer-remind Detroiters that trouble in the auto industry can have something to do with bad management. "You know," says a businessman, "when we were the arsenal of democracy, there was a great premium put on inefficiency of operation. The more payroll a company had, the more profit it would make on the cost-plus arrangement. And when the war ended, there...
...advocates amplified social security, along with speeded-up industrialization, to fight Cuba's chronic joblessness. In answer to Batista's charge that Castro's movement is "proSoviet and pro-Communist," friends of Castro point to the character of his army. Almost to a man, they are Roman Catholics, who wear religious medals on their caps or on strings around their necks. For the sake of getting on with the war, Castro says, he avoids fruitless political discussions with his one outrightly pro-Red captain...
When he took three of them to New York by sea in 1947, says Fleay, "it was one of the most trying times I have ever been through." He had chronic dyspepsia for a year "due to those blasted platypuses...