Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specialist in an activity in which a particular House is uniquely strong, it should not make much difference which you are in; and even then, it might be more exciting to be one of the people to develop a new strength in a House. Unless you are a chronic rebel, the chances are very good that, by the end of October, you will be convinced that yours is the best House...
...success has brought problems that Puerto Ricans never thought would worry them. Emigration to the main land, their traditional answer to chronic overpopulation, has slowed as jobs have become more plentiful at home. Vigorous opposition from the Roman Catho ic Church has all but wrecked any ef ective government birth control program. Population is now increasing at an average 2.3% a year (v. 1.5% in the 50 states), and at this rate - with no marked rise in emigration - will nearly double in the next 30 years. Today the island occupies a unique but not entirely comfortable economic status...
...Administration had been promising for months that this year would at last bring an end to the nation's chronic balance-of-payments deficit. Last week that prospect virtually vanished-a victim of the rising cost of the Viet Nam war and, strange as it seems, surging prosperity at home...
...prairie states, or even in a city like Los Angeles where the limitations of nature have been brushed aside. These shortages are expected. The present problem concerns the Northeast, where water was apparently as abundant as the concentrated masses who live there. Now, after four seasons of chronic drought, New Yorkers, and to some extent New Englanders, have become as water-conscious as Arizonians. That such a situation should have arisen is, of course, alarming; that such a situation should continue in the future shows a lack of public concern...
...Durham Lawyers Anthony Brannon and J. Milton Read Jr., it seemed harsh and unfair to treat a chronic drunk as a common criminal. They had read that Washington Attorney Peter Hutt had defended a District of Columbia drunk with the argument that alcoholism is a disease, not a crime (TIME, Nov. 27), and they decided to do the same for Driver. They took their case to the federal courts, and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a decision that promises to echo across the U.S., upheld their argument. "The alcoholic's presence in public...