Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis that forced Wilson to reshuffle his Cabinet was the third since the new government took over. First was the threatened devaluation of the pound, which stemmed from the chronic imbalance in Britain's foreign trade. Then there was the imbroglio over the controversial TSR-2 "Hedgehopper" bomber. Then came Leyton...
...drugs are used for a short period of time, the doctor noted, they have no serious physical affects. They prevent sleepiness by stimulating the central nervous system and do permanent damage only to the chronic user...
...chronic user, however, is not the one who suffers during exam period, the physician noted. He said that pep pills act differently on each individual, and that the pill which keeps one student alert may make another go blank completely during an exam. He added that this makes the drugs especially dangerous to the student who has never taken them and decides to give them a "one-shot trial...
...first of a bountiful crop of rice, potatoes and beans, estimated at 30% above last year's level, began to appear on grocery shelves, easing Brazil's chronic food shortage and starting stabilization of food prices after years of headlong advance...
Going It Alone? The current eruption of the chronic horror was touched off at last month's NATO meeting in Paris. Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, eager to do his bit for Wieder-vereinigung, tried to get the U.S., Britain and France to support an invitation to Russia for a four-power standing committee that would meet periodically to discuss the German problem. Neither Washington nor London was very interested, judging that Russia would turn down the invitation anyway, and France flatly refused. Schröder could only issue his own unilateral communiqu...