Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopes to offer the controversial vaccine to "high-risk" patients--those over 65 or with chronic illnesses--late in October, and to the rest of the University community two or three weeks afterwards. In line with federal policy, the clinic will urge all but children to roll up their sleeves for the vaccine...
...This book touches a sensitive nerve-how to make the most of available time. Though it is aimed primarily at businessmen who know they waste time and wish they didn't, its lessons apply to nearly everyone. One major cure for chronic time wasters, according to Edwin Bliss, a management consultant, is to write out lists setting priorities. Facing the truth tends to clarify things. Yes, indeed...
...fund Socialism" was the term Swedish Economist Erik Lundberg employed to describe the process. In Britain, the Labor Party's left wing continues to demand the nationalization of shipbuilding, aircraft production and banking-in disregard of the fact that most of Britain's already nationalized industries are chronic money losers whose inefficiencies are a major cause of the country's dismal economic plight. In West Germany, the unions still support the profit motive but are demanding a more decisive voice in how earnings are allocated between workers and shareholders...
...Chronic Nuisance. Purolator had not been exactly thorough in checking his credentials. In 1964, at the age of 18, Raymond was convicted of armed robbery. Paroled early, he was arrested again and returned to prison to finish his sentence. He appealed to Labor M.P. Tom Driberg (now Lord Driberg), who had a long record of espousing libertarian causes. Driberg interested himself in Raymond, his constituent, at one point even writing a letter to the Times arguing that Raymond should be released to marry and attend university, thus preventing him "from being a chronic nuisance to the public and a permanent...
...schooling ended at the age of eight, when his father died, and he had to go to work as an apprentice in a pottery run by an older brother. He became an expert thrower on the wheel, but an attack of small pox led to an infection and chronic weakness in his right knee. (Constantly bothered by the condition, Wedgwood finally decided a few years ago to have his leg amputated...