Word: chronical
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...ARTISANS RANGE from being shy to extremely outgoing. Since none of them speak or understand English, it often seems that they are frustrated by their inability to communicate with their captive audiences. Since the museum relies on volunteers to staff the floors, a chronic shortage of Mandarin-speaking interpreters seems unavoidable...
...hectoring muse of the theater, certain of every wink and diphthong. For Pygmalion, a road company Liza Doolittle is counseled on Cockney sounds: "Liar is lawyer . . . Handkerchief is Enkecher . . . Brute is not broot: it is brer-ewt. The utterance is slovenly and nasal, colds in the head being almost chronic in the gutter...
...Orleans, among the most significant pieces of legislation adopted was the so called "Death Penalty," or the two-year banishment from competetition for chronic institutional violators. (It is labeled as such because in college circles it is widely perceived that drawing such a sentence would effectively kill a college's athletic program.) Also adopted was a rule which would, for the first time, sanction the athletes themselves for knowingly violating a rule. In addition, teams convicted of infractions would be prohibited from recruiting...
...former Republican Vice President was gadding about (with Aides Pat Buchanan and William Safire in tow) trying desperately to get some national attention, when one day he had the good luck to say something about Viet Nam that angered L.B.J. Johnson lashed out at Nixon as a "chronic campaigner" who "never did really recognize what was going on when he had an official position in the Government." The result, as Theodore H. White recounts in The Making of the President: 1968, was that "Nixon was, overnight, front-page again." Buchanan has certainly not helped Cuomo so dramatically. Nonetheless...
Burkina Faso's Sankara has also inherited a country in economic torpor, and one that because of a chronic drought has actually become poorer since he took over in a coup in August 1983. Sankara has cut civil servants' wages and raised taxes. One problem is that his regime's inflammatory rhetoric keeps bubbling to the surface, making some countries hesitant to offer economic aid. Last month, for example, a government-run newspaper compared President Reagan to Hitler, prompting the U.S. to cut back its commitment to two development projects in forestry and agriculture. France, which in 1984 contributed...