Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this they have been badly trained. It is unlikely that even the best training programs could prepare Volunteers for the chronic emergencies and unanticipated obstacles they are likely to face abroad. Perhaps the early Peace Corps training programs whose Outward Bound components and intense lecture schedules resembled Marine Boot Camps were more helpful by virtue of their strenuousness and difficulty. The Volunteers who endured them may have gained self-confidence that they could endure still other hazards. Moreover, Peace Corps training programs bring together Volunteers from a wider variety of backgrounds within the United States than most of them have...
...full-bodied sound, with the kind of focus and control that was totally absent in the Princeton group. The latter has the same basic sensitivity, but they lack the sheen and polish that make the Harvard Glee Club so irresistible in spite of everything. Both groups suffered from the chronic ills of large choruses: slipping intonation, unbalanced voices, cheating on high notes...
...Newsman Harry Reasoner in the simple three-story frame house in Brookline, Mass., where President Kennedy and three of her other eight children were born. 'To give courage to other mothers because so many people are discouraged about their children," Mrs. Kennedy mused about her son's chronic tardiness and lack of discipline at boarding school. She told how "the President" heeded her motherly advice to wear a striped tie on TV because it looked chic, and to keep his hands out of his pockets. Throughout her recollections, she was at once a nostalgic mother and a gallant...
Devaluation was the inevitable answer to chronic economic ills. Last year Finland's gross national product was $8.6 billion, showing a mere 2.2% increase over the previous year, and well down from the average 5% growth rate during 1960-65. More than a fifth of the national income comes from exports, mostly to Western Europe. Slackening economies, particularly in Great Britain and West Germany, have cut Finland's export earnings. Meanwhile despite restrictive government policies and tight credit, imports remain high and the trade gap is running at $220 million for the second consecutive year. Unemployment has gone...
...description applies just about as well to any of the nation's other three metropolitan subways. Riding underground in the U.S. is such an un pleasant experience that countless potential passengers simply avoid it, and their lost fares contribute significantly to chronic operating deficits...