Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steven Jones was nearing an announcement on cold fusion too that Pons and Fleischmann called their surprise press conference. They had been urged to go public by University of Utah administrators, who were apparently fearful that archrivals at Brigham Young would steal the fusion spotlight. The U has had chronic money troubles recently, and an influx of fusion-research grants, not to mention international glory, could go a long way toward remedying the situation...
...mysterious malady is so named because it is not caused by the widely recognized A and B strains of hepatitis viruses. Symptoms include fever, nausea and fatigue and, in chronic cases, cirrhosis of the liver. About 5% of the U.S. population harbors non-A, non-B viruses. The majority of those who are exposed show no symptoms, but of the patients who come down with chronic liver disease, an estimated 10% die within five years. About 150,000 new infections occur each year because of blood transfusions...
Long a source of grim jokes and bitter complaints by the Soviet public, the chronic shortage of many consumer goods has only worsened under perestroika. Nonetheless, the Kremlin has been reluctant to dip into its hard-currency reserves (around $40 billion, according to Western estimates) to buy consumer goods from the West. But faced with rising discontent, Deputy Minister of Trade Suren Sarukhanov announced last week that the Soviet Union has signed contracts with companies from ten foreign countries to supply products with a retail value of some $2 billion in the hopes of at least temporarily quelling demand. Among...
...workers' wages. The Bush Administration is thinking of rewarding Poland for its moves toward liberalization by extending new credits, the first since martial law was imposed in 1981. Even a generous loan, however, may not be enough to help Poland surmount its $39 billion foreign debt, aging industries and chronic consumer shortages. All too many Poles are gripped with a visible depression of spirit that even the astonishing political changes have failed to lift...
...HEARD OF THE SOFT SELL, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS. The Soviets have almost no advertising experience, since there has been little need for promotion in a land of few choices and chronic shortages. The basic sales philosophy can be summed up in the words of a Soviet citizen who was asked what he would do if he wanted to attract more customers to stay at his hotel. "Well," he said, "I would hope that all the other hotels were full...