Word: chronicic
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...suspect, if only because a great many of the 22,000 troops were employed in occupying static positions and counting enemy bodies after U.S. air strikes. But in general, discipline was high, and there was reason to believe that the South Vietnamese were at last beginning to solve their chronic leadership problems on the squad, platoon and company level. "They had to have damn good small-unit leadership," an Army general argues, "or they wouldn't have got out of there...
...Dangerous to Your Health." Later this year, the Federal Trade Commission is likely to renew an attempt it made last year to force an even more ominous message into all cigarette ads: "Warning: Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Health and May Cause Death from Cancer, Coronary Heart Disease, Chronic Bronchitis, Pulmonary Emphysema and Other Diseases." Tobacco men are also being hit by rising taxes, which now account for 19? of the median U.S. price of 39? a pack. Last year seven states raised cigarette taxes, and almost every state has a legislator calling for still further boosts...
...volunteers and by the many educational deferments. So named for the number of eligible draftees it would encompass each year (but actually a Pentagon euphemism for lowering the military's physical and mental standards), the program reached into the traditionally rejected pool of society's marginal youth, chronic dropouts and underachievers-about 175,000 in the first 28 months. Inducted, trained for battle and little else, the men who are now being processed out are often hardly better prepared for civilian life than when they entered...
...unanimous decision, the court held that states cannot jail a man solely because he is too poor to pay a traffic fine. At issue was the case of Preston A. Tate, a Houston laborer and chronic scofflaw who had been fined $425 for nine traffic offenses. Unable to ante up, Tate was sent to a prison farm to work off his fine because, he said in a habeas corpus petition, "I am too poor...
...racism, unemployment, or the war were eliminated tomorrow, SDS would indeed be gratified-not disturbed, as Kinsley suggests. We do not believe, however, that chronic unemployment and imperialist exploitation can be ended under the capitalist system. This is why we would continue to attack the government even if (absurd speculation!) it unilaterally ended...