Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year figure is more or less correct, but here is what it takes to earn that kind of money. A trucker is away from home sometimes for weeks, often driving trucks that are furnaces in summer and freezing in winter. A good percentage of truck drivers have chronic stomach trouble and other health problems due to the existence they have to lead. Contrary to popular opinion, most truck-stop food is not very good. Truck driving is a physical hazard. Many men die on the highways every year...
EVEN before the comprehensive health code that went into effect last July, every Soviet citizen was entitled to "free and highly qualified medical assistance"-including compulsory treatment for mental illness, venereal disease, chronic alcoholism and drug addiction. The new code, however, goes far beyond individual illness. Some of its provisions deal at length with environmental controls to protect health by combatting the country's growing pollution; others bar the construction of factories in population centers and promote the development of health resorts...
...that we possess a well-knit social fabric. His fears are much the same as Fromm's in Escape from Freedom. His solution to our dangerous discontents- calling for a reintegration of ourselves into a community-is remarkably similar. Slater criticizes our compulsive inability to confront important issues and chronic social problems. He notes wittily that our approach to transportation problems has had the effect of making it easier to travel to more and more places that have become less and less worth diriving to-that is, if one can afford the luxury of a private automobile...
After 17 years on the throne-and nine assassination attempts-Hussein works hard at the job. He has become a good King-although his Palestinian subjects complain that he has too many corrupt relatives. His chronic fault is that he has always wavered in making decisions. Despite some vacillation last week, it seemed that Hussein finally had mustered the will to execute his purpose. As he said this summer, when he was beginning to lose patience with the guerrillas: "I am not the kind of person who will quit. This mission is part of me and I am part...
...showed a handsome surplus, foreign debts declined, and even the country's laggard industrial productivity gave signs of recovery. The euphoria turned out to be shorter than an English summer. Britain is once again tumbling into one of the periodic economic crises that have made the country the chronic invalid of Europe...