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...long-term planning and avoid the chronic instability created by annual appropriations, it calls on Congress to pass two-year defense budgets...
Over the past four decades, three Royal Commissions have concluded that the unions are largely responsible for Fleet Street's chronic money woes. Terminal may be a better adjective: on gross revenues of nearly $2 billion last year, Britain's 17 major papers made about $34 million in profits, nearly all of it accounted for by Murdoch's racy Sun, the country's largest daily (circ. 4.1 million...
...Amid the chronic bloodletting of Central America, Costa Rica stands out as an oasis of calm. But when the quadrennial presidential elections roll around, the country erupts into a celebration of its nearly century-old democracy that resembles nothing quite so much as a homecoming football game. Music blares, drivers honk, and flags decorate the streets. The Feb. 2 elections were no different. After more than 1 million voters went to the polls, Oscar Arias Sanchez of the ruling National Liberation Party emerged triumphant with 52.3% of the vote, defeating the Social Christian Unity Party's Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier...
Bachrach said he supported a protective tariff for the nation's ailing automotive industry--but not one for the shoe industry. He characterized the difference between these two cases as "between acute problems and chronic problems...
...Government steamed titanically toward default on Dec. 12, congressional leaders decided that they dared not seek approval for yet another increase in the debt unless they could show that they were really doing something about the chronic deficit that nobody wanted...