Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move to establish a state bank reflects a growing enmity between New York State's giant financial institutions and its political leaders. Their differences reached a boiling point in February when the private banks, apparently fed up with the chronic budgetary ills of Albany and New York City, refused to bid on bonds issued by the state's Urban Development Corporation. The UDC, created by the legislature mainly to finance low-cost ghetto housing, could not pay off $104.5 million in one-year notes. The state was forced to undertake an exceedingly costly rescue operation to save...
Voronel was forced to resign from his position at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow and was further harrassed by a draft call for active duty despite his age (41 years) and a previous exemption due to a chronic back problem. The upper age limit for military service...
...recent months the criticism of Somoza has become even more bitter. Nicaragua's chronic crisis has been exacerbated by rising food costs, seen by the people as an indication that Somoza is speculating in prices (certainly the shift in rural production from foodstuffs to the more profitable export crop of cotton has contributed to the hike, and Nicaragua's food prices are clearly higher than those in neighboring Central American countries.) Additionally, the housing shortage in Managua remains acute, and a two-month strike of construction workers has halted all rebuilding save that which takes place protected by armed guards...
...Israeli psychiatrists and psychologists, the Yom Kippur War was a bench mark. Before it, nation building and the chronic threat of war seemed to leave little room for worry about personal emotional problems. Esteem for the psychosciences was low, at least by Western standards. Since the 1973 war, public respect for psychiatry has risen sharply. For one thing, many psychiatrists and psychologists performed heroically during the conflict: they moved to the front with the troops to deal with battle shock on the spot; behind the lines they manned crisis centers to treat soldiers and civilians alike. Their work was doubly...
Longley has vowed to solve Maine's chronic economic backwardness by skillful budget paring and attracting new business. But as an independent, he faces unusual difficulties. Maine's state bureaucracy is as entrenched as any in the country. Longley, who on election night allowed, "I'm still a Democrat," may indeed have to shed his independent elective mantle to win legislative votes for his program. Still, the Governor-elect remains confident. He has already vowed not to seek reelection, in the perhaps naive hope that this will improve his chances for accomplishment, and he feels that...