Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 1940s, a U.S. Senate committee declared Puerto Rico's problems "unsolvable." The Caribbean island had a rapidly expanding population, few natural resources, hardly any industry, and chronic unemployment that sometimes ran to one-third of the labor force. In 1942, a rising young politician named Luis Munoz Marin organized a self-help program called Operation Bootstrap; a few years later, as Governor, he invited U.S. companies south, offering them political stability plus wide tax advantages and a vast reservoir of eager-to-learn labor. Ever since, Puerto Rico's economy has been one long, steady success story...
President Johnson has also announced his position, but for this country the Panama crisis is only one of a dozen in the first few weeks of the year. Unless this dispute grows into a chronic embarrassment or explodes into a disaster, the President is adept enough to keep it from defeating...
...Administration's current course, however, could lead to chronic embarrassment or disaster, even if the OAS votes to repudiate Panama's charge of armed aggression. That vote would not satisfy Panama or restore diplomatic relations and economic...
Every patient's safety margin is different, and at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, Dr. Franz U. Steinberg is carrying out experiments that expose chronic congestive-heart-failure patients to most of the physical stresses they may expect to encounter after going home or back to work. The carefully tabulated results are expected to set safe and sensible limits to normal exertion...
Last week the Sloan-Kettering researchers, headed by Dr. Chester M. Southam, announced the answer. With the cooperation of Dr. Emanuel E. Mandel at Brooklyn's Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital, cancer cells were injected under the skin of 19 patients severely ill from non-cancer diseases. The cancer cells did not "take" in any of these non-cancer patients (though four have since died, and one of them had an unrelated, hitherto undetected cancer of the bladder). Immunity to cancer is evidently a universal phenomenon, and it is lost only in the special circumstances, still not understood, in which...