Word: chronics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Battle (published a year after the last helicopters lifted ignominiously off the American embassy roof in Saigon) by saying that, what with Vietnam and nuclear weapons, "the suspicion grows that battle has already abolished itself." It is pretty to think so. What we have left, in any case, is chronic but localized messes--and terrorism of the McVeigh or bin Laden variety...
That the council failed to properly publicize this event is nothing new—nor does it speak to the failure of any one person to make sure that the publicity occurred. Rather, publicity (or the lack thereof) is a chronic problem on the council, and one that tends to become ingrained as successive groups of representatives and leaders cycle through the organization...
...attacks, which killed one person and injured two others, followed overnight rioting during which police arrested 238 people. It was unclear whether the blasts were connected to the strike called by two regional groups to protest political and social issues, including the government's failure to deal with a chronic water shortage...
Kocher also wrote a petition saying that those who signed it had "endured chronic problems with disorderliness and late-night noise from the Harvard Lampoon...
...thing Megawati does have going for her besides more popular support than any of her rivals, is the backing of the military top brass. Having kept Suharto in power for three decades and then engineered his ouster when street protests threatened chronic instability, the military remains the ultimate arbiter of power in Jakarta. And while they're staying out of the parliamentary fray, the generals have warned the politicians to keep their differences off the streets. While there are no fears of an imminent coup, a long-term bout of political instability at the center amid an unraveling...