Word: chronical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unions have continually fought mechanization, and Congress has never provided sufficient funds for it. Rates have been kept relatively low, and Congress has not acted on the Administration's latest request for an increase. This puts the Post Office in the position of seeming to be a chronic debtor. Since 1838, revenue has met costs in only 17 years. The difference comes from the Treasury. Present deficits total $1.5 billion a year...
Next year's freshmen are being chosen this month and the Radcliffe Administration is in the process of reappraising its advisor program. The stumbling block to all proposals is the chronic lack of student enthusiasm about what is being designed for them...
ONLY nine months ago, the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence was able to report that the U.S. "has experienced almost none of the chronic revolutionary conspiracy and terrorism that plagues dozens of other nations." To be sure, plots and skirmishes have footnoted American history, and bomb blasts sometimes provided the punctuation. But they were usually isolated cases tied to a specific labor dispute, racial confrontation or criminal feud. For many decades, the specter of the political bomber has been as alien and anachronistic as the caricature of the bearded anarchist heaving a bomb the size...
five millionaire families who kept their workers sentenced to life terms of illiteracy, malnutrition, chronic illness, racisin, and powerlessness. Now the large majority of the jails are museums or have been converted for use as school buildings...
...varsity will only lose three men by graduation, and two of these slots will probably be filled by transfers who have been sitting out this year. Next year's varsity will have tremendous depth at the middle and upper weights, but still will face the chronic lower weight problem and the lack of a heavyweight...