Word: chronical
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...terrorism, disease, salmonella, stretched budgets and local males with stretch jeans and tmt (too much testosterone) - the European vacation spirit is unconquerable. The thing about vacations is that recollection of the bad bits fades in direct proportion to exaggeration of the good bits. Says German researcher Opaschowski, "Tourists have chronic short-term memory." No sooner are we back at the desk than we start daydreaming, planning like hordes of Houdinis our next escape...
...hydrogen power went nowhere then, just as it went nowhere when it was trumpeted nearly a century ago. It will probably go nowhere today, for many reasons, most notably a chronic case of short attention span among American politicians when it comes to energy policy. With great fanfare, lawmakers and Presidents--both Democrats and Republicans--announce sweeping plans to end or ease American dependence on foreign oil and find other stable sources of energy. When the headlines and television sound bites fade away, however, they scrap the programs, which then are often reintroduced to an unsuspecting public...
...potentially chronic natural-gas shortage and its impact on the economy and employment have even Alan Greenspan worried. Talking about the many industries dependent on natural gas, the Federal Reserve chairman told the Senate Energy Committee last week that "we do see the obvious loss of jobs ... because it has made us largely uncompetitive in a number of industries in which gas is a critical input." He also saw little hope that prices would fall. "We are not apt to return to earlier periods of relative abundance and low prices anytime soon," he said...
...bombings that helped propel him into office in the first place. "Bombings and elections go together in Moscow," noted an editorial in the English-language Moscow Times. "At the Kremlin they believe that Russians will learn to live with these bombings, like the Soviets once learned to live with chronic food shortages," says the senior federal government official. Putin lumps the Chechens in with al-Qaeda, calling them "the most dangerous part of the international terrorist network." But Shchekochikhin had a different analysis. "All Putin's talk of international terrorism in Chechnya is wildly off the mark," he said last...
...little authority or motive to intervene. But without some outside help, there is almost no hope of anything dislodging kidnapping as the state's most popular career choice. Though Bihar is India's third-largest state, it has attracted no investment or industry to speak of, and unemployment is chronic. Meanwhile, those Biharis who still have jobs are often paralyzed by insecurity: across the state, fear of kidnapping has emptied schools of teachers, fields of laborers and hospitals of doctors. Purnendu Ojha, a pediatric surgeon who was the first of 15 doctors from the state capital Patna to be kidnapped...