Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chronic outbursts against doctors, Mark Twain once complained that the "insane," monopolistic American medical system was "an infamous thing, a crime against a free man's right to choose his own assassin." Twain's fulmination is now being echoed by contemporary opponents of the medical establishment. Championing Laetrile, their painless apricot-pit panacea, they are insisting that Americans should be allowed a "freedom of choice" to pick their own cancer therapy...
...question of who maimed New York City has become Newfield's obsession. He is concerned not only with immediate injury-the 30-month-long fiscal crisis-but with chronic economic and social ailments. The Abuse of Power is his answer. Though written with Paul Du Brul, a city planner, the book's thesis is pure Newfield: the city was not merely short-shrifted by federal policy, let down by feckless mayors and leeched by the unions. The case was, and remains, an exercise in gang rape with enough perpetrators to fill a penitentiary...
...official delegates, drawn from every state, are handicapped. A quarter are parents of handicapped children, and the rest are professionals in the field. All face a hard week's work, studying 466 pages of "awareness papers" and attending eight workshops to discuss topics ranging from psychological problems to chronic unemployment...
...trying to persuade Mexico to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants to the north. As an incentive, Carter's program is expected to include economic aid to Mexico to help set up labor-intensive projects, with an emphasis on farming, that will reduce the nation's chronic unemployment. That may help some, but certainly not enough. In the years ahead, the U.S. is likely to continue to be burdened with the fact that it is still pre-eminently the land of opportunity and promise-and that hundreds of thousands of people who cannot immigrate legally will try everything...
...Hitler revisionism, though in a subtler fashion. His peculiar book, indefatigably researched for ten years and written to the size of a small footlocker, begins with a vaguely Brooksian premise: Hitler was "an ordinary, walking, talking human weighing some 155 pounds, with graying hair, largely false teeth, and chronic digestive ailments.'' He was not, Irving continues, the lone maniac exclusively responsible for bringing down European civilization in Götterdämmerung. This singular chronicle of World War II displays a quiet and sometimes fascinating empathy for its subject, viewing the battle maps as they looked...