Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that at least one major spill would occur over 20 years. Worse yet, warned Foy, would be the almost continuous discharges from day-to-day operations. Adds Biologist Howard Sanders of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: "There is a very real danger to Georges Bank fish from low-level chronic pollution...
Though studies have shown that the rate of violent and sexual crimes is lower among gypsies than among the German population as a whole, they remain marked as dangerous people, as well as chronic pickpockets and con men. Tellingly, the German name for gypsy, Zigeuner, literally means "wandering swindler." Complains Romani Rose, a German gypsy activist: "If a sandwich is missing in the schoolroom, a gypsy child gets blamed...
...danger, of course, is that such youthful deep dependence on drink may lead to chronic alcoholism, a condition that remains fairly rare on campus. But early habits have a way of hanging...
...internationally respected newspapers came within a hairbreadth of dying themselves. Exasperated by chronic featherbedding and wildcat disruptions, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization, owner of the newspapers, suspended publication last Nov. 30. Thomson executives felt they could force the anarchic print unions into line within several months, at the outside, but they underestimated the complexity of the task and the resiliency of their adversaries. A final agreement was not reached until last week, just hours before the deadline Times Newspapers Ltd. Managing Director Marmaduke Hussey had implicitly set for closing the papers for good...
...CHRONIC faculty absence, like the delay of the first CUE meeting this year, is only one aspect of the Faculty's longstanding disinterest in maintaining CUE as a serious contributor to Faculty policy. CUE was set up in 1969 as part of the Faculty reorganization plan to make recommendations on educational policy to the Faculty Council, which in turn decides whether to send the suggestions on to the Faculty in the form of legislation...