Word: chronicic
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Americans have a special sensitivity to the problem now, but it existed well before Watergate and is far broader than that shabby attempt to corrupt the U.S. constitutional system. Moreover, the phenomenon is worldwide. In one country after another, chronic, debilitating inflation tends to undermine the social contract...
...your head with a meat axe." Without Jan Lewis's acid-coated delivery and Hutson's wry cool on stage, Coward's play would never escape the quagmire it so richly deserves. Mark Swiney, Carla Dragoni, and Patsy Culbert portray brilliantly the assorted pathologies of organic brain damage, a chronic symptom of Coward's background characters...
...less antagonistic, and even France agreed to study recent growth patterns to determine whether Britain is being overcharged. Nonetheless, there was considerable resentment on the part of the ministers that at a tune when the Community as a whole is faced with unprecedented economic problems including record inflation and chronic payments imbalances, it should become bogged down in what they see primarily as Harold Wilson's domestic political problem...
...resolution acknowledges the strength of Saigon's American-equipped 1.1 million-man army. It also discusses weakness and instability in the Thieu government and refers to signs of a "serious crisis" in Saigon. With only a minimum of hyperbole, it talks of such chronic problems as "less rice, escalation of prices, people so hungry they commit suicide. U.S. aid is being reduced. There is not enough money to pay civil servants and soldiers. The single resource left is emission of bank notes ... These weak points are basic, lasting, difficult to overcome and increasingly serious...
Even where there is no will, there is a way. There is a difference, of course, between chronic procrastination and purposeful postponement, particularly in the higher echelons of business. Corporate dynamics encourage the caution that breeds delay, says Richard Manderbach, Bank of America group vice president. He notes that speedy action can be embarrassing or extremely costly. The data explosion fortifies those seeking excuses for inaction-another report to be read, another authority to be consulted. "There is always," says Manderbach, "a delicate edge between having enough information and too much...