Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Industrial nations, particularly the raw-material-starved Japanese, long hungered after Indonesia's largely untapped hoard of oil, copper, nickel and timber. But intense nationalism and chronic political upheaval kept foreigners out until volatile President Sukarno was overthrown in 1965. Since the new government began encouraging outside investment two years later, hundreds of companies from Japan, the U.S., Europe and the Philippines have poured $250 million into the archipelago, mostly for mining and logging, and have pledged to spend another $1.15 billion. On top of that, they are spending $150 million annually exploring offshore...
...possible return of fullback Steve Hall to the Crimson backfield this afternoon should bolster the Crimson rushing attack, which picked up only 44 yards in 43 attempts last week against the Tigers. Hall has been suffering from chronic ankle injury since pre-season practice...
...Until last week, Connally had indicated that the U.S. intended to turn its chronic balance of payments deficit into a surplus-and was prepared to use its economic weapons, notably the 10% surtax on imports, for as long as it took to accomplish the goal. But at the IMF meeting, Connally dropped the requirement that the U.S. must be in the black before it would scrap the surtax. Instead, he said at a press conference, what was needed was "assurances that a formula and procedure is agreed on that will rectify" the U.S. imbalance. The U.S. will chuck the surcharge...
...uneasy relationship between technology and "fine art" has become a crucial problem for artists over the past 20 years. It involves a chronic split between two modes of perception. On the one hand, the leisurely, selective, linear images on the museum wall; on the other, the shifting, promiscuous, more or less disposable flood of information and patterns that makes up most of our everyday visual experience. Much recent "novelty" art, as diverse as Pop and kinetics, is acutely conscious of that disjuncture. Indeed, the split itself has become a form of subject matter, and few men have made...
...known to suffer from chronic tuberculosis and has not been seen since June. His death or incapacity might be more disruptive than the death of Mao himself. If Mao were to die, his successor, at least, would be preordained. But if the chosen successor himself were to die, there would inevitably be a scramble over who should move into his place...