Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost of Allende's revolution has proved higher than many of his countrymen yet realize. So far, direct controls have checked Chile's chronic inflation, which last year galloped away at the rate of 34.9%. The controls have crippled Chilean businessmen by forcing them to hold down prices while having to pay higher taxes and higher wages to employees. Allende has granted cost-of-living increases ranging from 34.9% for public employees to 47% for private workers. The government's policies have also laid the foundation for renewed inflation by increasing the money supply 55.2% during...
...suspect, if only because a great many of the 22,000 troops were employed in occupying static positions and counting enemy bodies after U.S. air strikes. But in general, discipline was high, and there was reason to believe that the South Vietnamese were at last beginning to solve their chronic leadership problems on the squad, platoon and company level. "They had to have damn good small-unit leadership," an Army general argues, "or they wouldn't have got out of there...
President Richard Nixon may have been normally cool and purposeful in handling Howard K. Smith on ABC last week, but he is a chronic fumbler compared with the British Prime Minister, Lord North, fielding Eric Sevareid on CBS next week. Prime Minister who? Frederick Lord North, the chap who presided over the loss of the American colonies and who is re-embodied by Actor Peter Ustinov in a new CBS documentary project. The series, titled The American Revolution: 1770-1783, will include perhaps a dozen such "interviews" by the time of the nation's 1976 bicentennial. In the premiere...
...Dangerous to Your Health." Later this year, the Federal Trade Commission is likely to renew an attempt it made last year to force an even more ominous message into all cigarette ads: "Warning: Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Health and May Cause Death from Cancer, Coronary Heart Disease, Chronic Bronchitis, Pulmonary Emphysema and Other Diseases." Tobacco men are also being hit by rising taxes, which now account for 19? of the median U.S. price of 39? a pack. Last year seven states raised cigarette taxes, and almost every state has a legislator calling for still further boosts...
...unanimous decision, the court held that states cannot jail a man solely because he is too poor to pay a traffic fine. At issue was the case of Preston A. Tate, a Houston laborer and chronic scofflaw who had been fined $425 for nine traffic offenses. Unable to ante up, Tate was sent to a prison farm to work off his fine because, he said in a habeas corpus petition, "I am too poor...