Word: chronical
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...files of a psychiatric social worker. The Dead, her contribution to Prize Stories of the Seventies, follows a neurasthenic woman writer named Ilena through a declining marriage, a feverish love affair and literary success. The first line, taken off a pillbox, sets the tone: "Useful in acute and chronic depression, where accompanied by anxiety, insomnia, agitation; psychoneurotic states manifested by tension, apprehension, fatigue." The story has the quality of an intense case study with cultural footnotes. Some are ironic: "Newly divorced, she had felt virginal again, years younger, truly childlike and American. Beginning again. Always beginning." Some are histrionic: "This...
...potentially tragic that the University is responding so sluggishly to the need for adequate contraceptive care. If delays of the sort cited here are oversights, they should be corrected: If they reflect a policy decision by UHS, that decision should be publicly discussed. Yet it seems clear that this chronic underservice is unacceptable. The University cannot force students to be sexually responsible, yet it can do whatever possible to aid those who are demonstrating that responsibility. UHS was formed to meet the needs of the University community, and in this instance it is dangerously failing to do so. Elizabeth Henderson...
...Across the Continent, social security systems are grappling with fiscal crisis, in part because ponderous, costly bureaucracies have mushroomed to administer a vast array of programs that sometimes neglect the essential to serve up what is merely desirable. In Britain and France, rent subsidies have done little to alleviate chronic housing shortages and overcrowding. In The Netherlands, disability plans have been abused by unemployed workers making false claims to receive higher benefits. Generous sick-leave payments in Sweden are blamed for a debilitating rise in worker absenteeism. One official West German pamphlet giving citizens a "simplified" version of their social...
...recent years Brezhnev has gained enough authority and prestige to put his portrait and quotations on propaganda posters all across the U.S.S.R. Yet so far he has avoided responsibility for chronic failures of the economy and agriculture. That onus he thrust upon other comrades, particularly his longtime partner Alexei Kosygin, who died in late December, less than two months after his resignation as Premier. Now more than ever, the gerontocratic leadership of the U.S.S.R. is dominated by Brezhnev appointees and protégés, with neither an obvious heir nor a challenger in their midst...
...Western view that Soviet intervention is inevitable was rooted in a cold-blooded diagnosis of the Polish disease. Not only is it critical, it is chronic, degenerative and infectious. With nasty irony, Poland is proving that Marx was right: political crisis does sprout from economic difficulty. And in Poland's case, the economy is on the brink of collapse...