Word: chronicic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Raudenbush and Berg are also members of the Progressive Labor Party (PL). The relationship of PL to Harvard SDS was discussed at last night's meeting, amid expectations that the national convention to be held at the end of the month would be marked by a recurrence of a chronic power struggle between pro and anti-PL factions...
...Chronic users are probably less dangerous highway drivers than are chronic drinkers...
...Chronic smokers appear to think more clearly under influence than do new smokers, unlike chronic alcoholics...
Either way, Alaska is bound to benefit. Though the fields are now being worked by outside labor, oil should eventually alleviate chronic unemployment among the state's 270,000 residents, whose two main occupations are fishing and working at the U.S. military bases. The state government will collect a 12.5% royalty in the form of oil, which it will sell to processors for the profitable petrochemical trade that they already conduct with Japan. Eventually, oil will mean far more to the state than gold, of which about $750 million worth has been mined since 1880. Only $760,000 worth...
Needless to say, there hasn't been an ideal Lampoon for as long as anyone in the world can remember. The problem isn't the chronic lack of belly laughs in a typical issue; wisely deciding that Daffy Duck type humor is best left to the Brattle, Poonies have aimed for something a little more subtle. But as the latest Thanksgiving number shows, the emphasis on subtlety can go a little too far--like when it blots out anything funny...