Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Each year Immigration agents all over the U.S. round up tens of thousands of illegals and send them home again. López Portillo has devised a two-pronged solution to the problem: the U.S. should relax its immigration rules to help this safety valve on Mexico's chronic unemployment, and should encourage American investment in Mexican industry, thereby providing more jobs...
When Mr. Scheft was looking for masqueraders, he entirely overlooked the fans at hockey games. The fans suffer from chronic lethargy and apathy, something of which the Band has never been able to cure them, although it has tried and is still trying. However, as in any persistently futile effort, momentary lapses are entirely unavoidable. The response of the fans to the Band is always nil. In fact, the only positive response the hockey band gets from anyone is great praise and support from the team itself, through Coach Cleary. After last year's playoff upset at UNH (were...
Harvard's efforts have not saved the project from struggling through its share of snags and disappointments. One chronic snag is the requirement that all funding go through the fiscal offices of Boston Public Schools, a process Grant described as causing enough red tape to make any simple project a lot of work. Several months ago, the state approved a $55,000 grant to the career development program, but Harvard still has not gotten any money. Somewhere on its journey through the public bureaucracy the contract got lost. As a result, the career development program has fallen behind schedule, Grant...
...influenza strain would pose no grave danger to healthy children or adults. Strains of flu cause more illness in their first year--and the illness they cause is more debilitating--than afterwards. To the elderly and to those with chronic illnesses, the prospect is frightening. To everyone else, the prospect is merely unpleasant. Moreover, the analogies to 1918 were misleading, since in that year's epidemic most deaths were caused by bacterial infections secondary to flu that now can be combatted with antibiotics...
...President-elect has said nothing at all about all those servicemen who received less than honorable discharges for acts of protest short of desertion, but related to their reluctance to wage the war. Some, for example, failed to carry out orders, became chronic malingerers or were insubordinate to superiors. No one knows just how many cases there are, since many of these discharges were made, often capriciously, for a wide array of reasons to get rid of unwanted soldiers. Some of the war-resister groups insist there were about 700,000 veterans with less-than-honorable discharges and that...