Word: chronical
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...when official Moscow finally reported the committee's decisions at week's end, they seemed to boil down to another effort to deal with Russia's chronic economic problem: agriculture. Kicked upstairs to a party secretaryship was Supreme Economic Council Chairman (since 1963) Dmitry F. Ustinov. Replacing him was onetime State Planner Vladimir Novikov, 58. Ustinov's other post as First Deputy Premier went to a Byelorussian apparatchik, Kirill T. Mazurov, 50. Though Khrushchev's old ideological czar, Leonid Ilyichev, was also bumped aside, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev laid most emphasis on the agricultural mess...
Since World War II the magazine's financial crises have been chronic; Hillman inherited a $3300 debt, which he attributed to "the Advocate policy of throwing anything that looks like a business letter into the business office and then locking the door...
...first assumed that each resident student would have her own room. Later, the growth of the college and its chronic shortage of funds forced the administration to put many students into doubles. More recently, rooms intended to be singles had to be converted to doubles...
...college administrators. The New York bureau has collected evidence of marijuana use at 15 upstate New York campuses. Dr. Gerald L. Klerman of the Harvard Medical School staff estimates that 10% of the students at such large urban universities as Harvard, Stanford and California's Berkeley campus are "chronic users." As many as a third of the undergraduates at Yale and Columbia, according to an informed estimate, have at least tried the drug. And Cornell's President James A. Perkins is worried enough to have brought the issue out into the open...
Best and most characteristic of the stories is The Fall and Rise of Mrs. Hapgood. An English matron, shocked to learn of her seemingly unassailable husband's chronic infidelities, looks long at herself and is repelled by what she sees: something between a nanny and a Girl Guide. She takes on a new face, a new wardrobe, a lover ("Why not have fun?"), and learns to fight for her real life "like a sane animal that wants to survive." Her husband, she realizes, had wanted her merely as a mother; her lover, she feels, is making an honest woman...