Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken her the better part of two decades, however, to disentangle herself from childhood and, in particular, from the ghost of a conventional, cheery, saintly, disapproving Midwestern mother. Nor has it been easy for her, despite much consciousness raising, to wear female adulthood with comfort. She is a chronic stocktaker, and it is fairly clear that what she saw when she began to put this interim report together gave her no great pleasure: a good reporter, a financial success, a useful friend, housebroken house guest, amusing aunt, attractive heterosexual single woman, and an occasional partner in civilized love affairs that...
...Buddhism and a counterculture hero; of heart disease; near Mill Valley, Calif. Born in England, Watts came to America in 1938, lectured widely on college campuses and occasionally lived on a houseboat in San Francisco Bay. His concept of inner peace and release from what he termed "the chronic uneasy conscience of Hebrew-Christian cultures," made popular through The Way of Zen (1957) and his essay Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen (1958), earned him an enthusiastic following that ranged from hippies to psychoanalysts and theologians to Drug Cultist Timothy Leary...
...with a population of 36 million-more than ten times that of Israel-Egypt is better able to bear combat losses. Some industries have been deprived of skilled technicians, but mobilization has not drained the civilian economy of needed manpower. If anything, it has helped Egypt's chronic unemployment problem. One international firm has offices in both Cairo and Jerusalem, employing about 140 in each city. The war cut its Jerusalem staff down to a mere eleven; in Cairo all the workers are on the job. Even though Cairo airport was closed for 24 days, hotels report few cancellations...
...each performs its specific duties. For now, however, recognition of the physical difference gives doctors a potential new tool in diagnosing disease. In blood samples from healthy people, about 20% of the lymphocytes are B-cells, the remainder Tcells. The percentage changes in some ill people; in most chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients, for example, the majority of the cells are B-cells, a condition that can be now determined with speed and precision...
...remained at a low level. Except for optical goods and such choice export items as fiber-glass boats and camper iceboxes, nearly every East German product, from chewing gum to paint, is inferior to its Western equivalent. Distribution is bad, and shortages of even items like toilet paper are chronic. People still line up for such things as fruit-grapefruits are sold only to diabetics. Shoppers often return home emptyhanded. "You always walk around with a pocketful of money," says a Leipzig woman, "because you never know what you may find in the shops...