Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...physical and behavioral changes, the scientists were cautious in stating their conclusion: "One is tempted to speculate that neurochemical changes [in the rats' brains] are directly related to the hyperactivity and convulsions." Rosenkrantz and Luthra suggested that doctors who observe hyperactivity or convulsions in patients who are chronic pot smokers might treat them in time to prevent the possibility of even more serious illness...
...biochemists admit that their results may not be applicable to humans. They note that "feeding" the rats marijuana through tubes inserted directly into their stomachs is about one-sixth as effective as inhalation. On the other hand, the smallest chronic dosage given to any of the groups of rats was 30 times as high as that inhaled by heavy users of less potent, natural marijuana. Moreover, to duplicate the rat experiment with humans, the scientists estimated, a subject would have to puff his way through 50 joints of marijuana a day. Even so, the results of the experiment raise...
...farmers, the pleasure derived from the bumper crop is tempered by a wistful remembrance of things past. Its numbers much diminished by increasing mechanization on ever larger tracts, the farm bloc has lost much of its political clout in Washington and the nation. A chronic dissatisfaction afflicts small farmers, many of whom are forced off the land each year. Those who remain face persistent rises in production costs; last year, despite a record gross income of $56.6 billion, farmers wound up with total earnings of $15.7 billion-$500 million less than the year before...
...this confusion which leads Herrnstein to parade speculations about chronic technological unemployment as facts--when they're only beginning to be investigated...
...this confusion which leads Herrnstein to parade speculations about chronic technological unemployment as facts--when they're only beginning to be investigated...