Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brutal Diagnosis. The need is urgent because Israel's economy has been ailing for months. During its early years of headlong economic growth-at average rates of 9% a year-Israel's imports raced beyond its exports, resulting in a chronic balance of payments deficit. To right the balance, the country in 1965 resorted to a tough dose of economic mitun (restraint), which slowed inflation, though at the cost of a standstill economy and mounting unemployment (now 8%) in Israel's 927,000-man labor force. Mitun was a casualty of the Six-Day War, as Israel...
...change comes as a response to widespread dissatisfaction with the standby system as used by the shortrun airlines. Eighty per cent of the population of the United States lives within the Eastern route systems, and heavy congestion in standby lines left many students flight-less and caused chronic delays in departure times...
...programs this discrepancy remains. In England after fifteen years experience with the National Health Service, it's the higher income groups that make better use of the program. And at the Martha Eliot Center, Dr. Salber said, the children have many more minor ailments than normally: colds, respiratory ailments, chronic coughs. "We wonder if they get their medicine," she said...
Businessmen are always talking about ways to end that chronic corporate ailment, the time-wasting conference. Now Danish Engineer Søren T. Lyngsø 46, head of a Copenhagen-based industrial instrument firm, has come forward with a conference-room conversation stopper: a sort of electronic tote board that reminds company staffers that talk is far from cheap...
WHAT were educational possibilities were psychological impossibilities. At bull-sessions among ourselves we had invariably discussed the chronic problem of Negro students--problems which we were trying to deal with in the classroom, but which were minor compared to the ones we were creating outside...